The Bigger Picture of Ignorance

As human beings, especially American ones, we tend to place a lot of merit around our own knowledge. And why wouldn’t we? It fits our life with near perfection. We study and pay attention to the things that interest us based on our own uniquely-curated palette of values and ideals. Even if we haven’t yet achieved as much as we anticipate/expect from ourselves, we generally trust that we could have if only...(fill in the blank). We fortify our beliefs with whatever ‘proof’ we come across, and by the time we are young adults, our egos (unless they have been compromised by trauma) are fairly proud of whatever direction we have taken, even if that course may be leading us to the proverbial edge of a cliff. Our individual concept of ‘common sense’ becomes the things that we, personally know the best. This leaves a lot of other people appearing to us as if they do not possess enough common sense. Ignorance Week gives us the opportunity to back up from our own knowledge and intelligence and take some deep breaths.

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