“Ignorance is bliss”
Shouldn’t we all be a little more ignorant then? For if
everyone is blissfully ignorant then no one will fall to the sinister sin of
malcontentary? In the absence of this heinous lust for selfishly obtained
“knowledge”, our society would flourish.
Gone would be the days we would need policemen to stop crime and help
the little old ladies of the world; gone would be the troubling times in which
we would even need a government to “inform and protect us”; gone would be the
lurid lives we live day to day, in which we clamor over one another in an
attempt to gain the knowledge of our dreams. A utopia of ignorance is what we
should hope and pray for because it promises us a heaven on earth like no
other. We would be free of our earthly hell, where we are damned to chase
fleeting slivers of knowledge in hopes that prosperity will follow. Our shackles
of prejudice, hate, and depression would be lifted from our feeble souls
leaving us to blissfully ignorance our way through life. Our suffocating wants
and needs would be relinquished as well, shed off like a butterfly would its
cocoon. And it is out of this heavy, ridged cocoon of knowledge that we would
lift our selves into the airy blissful enlightenment of being un-enlightened. I
for one am extremely jealous of those who are extremely ignorant. To me they
are like Shoa lin monks who have mastered the concept of inner peace. Unlike
the Shoa lin monks though they are blissfully unaware of their accomplishment
which makes them much more admirable. Every day I try to spread my wings and be
as ignorant as they are, but I have never once been as blissfully unaware as
them. Maybe one day I can grow my wings and ascend to their level of ignorance,
but until then I’ll hope and pray for blissful blindness.
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