8/11/2019 Ignorance, The Answer to a Question I Forgot
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Michael MansAcademic DecathlonSpeech Draft 1
Ignorance, the Answer to a Question I Forgot
Ignorance! Isnt that what we all really want? To be able to walk
down
the street whether it be rsh hor or " A#M# and not ha$e a care
in the
world not towards the car barreling towards s nor towards the
plane abotto take ot the o$erpass# %hy wold anybody li$e their life
worrying abot
the world arond them when they can &st parade like drones?
%e sholdnt
be planning for apocalypses or or ftre we shold be walking o'
cli's &st
to see what happens or heads de$oid of knowledge and reason#
In (latos allegory of the ca$e he describe people who are forced
to
stare at a wall for their entire e)istence ne$er knowing
anything else# *ehind
them are pppeteers casting magni+cent shadows on the wall before
them
and occasionally letting ot an echo# Say there are for prisoners
all they
know is that dimly lit wall and the hands in front of them# ,ne
day one of the
prisoners is released and shown the pppets whose details are
e$en moremagni+cent than their silhoettes# This freeman is then led
ot of the ca$e
and into the snlight where he is o$erwhelmed by the warmth and
intensity
of the light on his $irgin eyes and as he faces reality he
adapts to the light#
-e sees the shadows then the sky then the sn# -e has pity on the
other
three who remain in the ca$e bt when he retrns he is pitied
sco'ed# To the
others he has spoiled his eyes# -e can no longer see these
.wondros/
shadows and once again climbs ot of the ca$e# (lato goes on to
state that
once yo see the trth yo will ne$er be satis+ed with ignorance yo
will
e$en be ridicled by the ignorant#
,b$iosly the answer to this is to ne$er lea$e the ca$e ne$er
lookbehind yo at the pppeteers# If yo ne$er know anything bt
ignorance
then yo ne$er know what yore missing# %hy face reality when yo
can
fore$er be a pet to those whose carry the brden of knowledge#
They ha$e
their basic needs fl+lled0 food water shelter to hell with the
rest of
Maslows hierarchy! The isse with society is that we are ne$er
pleased with
what we ha$e becase we acknowledge what we dont# Ignorance is
always
the answer! et s be the many sheep to the few shepherds
regardless of
their intentions for s# et them herd s into the slaghter hose
for all we
know2 actally we know nothing so whate$er happens is
irrele$ant#
A spikey3haired mishce$ios si)3year3old with an imaginary tiger
once
said .2 if yo willflly stpid yo dont know any better so yo can
keep
doing whate$er yo like!/ 4al$in knew how the world works# 5rom a
yong
age he knew that ignorance is bliss if yore ignorant then yo
ha$e no
personal accontability and what is personal accontability other
than self3
pnishment and dissatisfaction# At the end of the strip after
ha$ing tmbled
o' a cli' in a red wagon -obbes says .Im not sre I can stand so
mch
bliss#/ 4al$in retorts .4arefl! %e dont want to learn anything
from this#/ At
