People say ignorance is bliss, but I don’t believe that for a second. Ignorance is sticking your head in the sand and pretending like the world isn’t moving around you. Ignorance is denying truth. Ignorance is fantasy. Ignorance is not acknowledging that which is real.
Ignorance allows people not to feel. Ignorance allows people to be cold and callous. Ignorance allows people to go ahead and live their life like they don’t have a care in the world when people are suffering around them.
Ignorance allows governments to write off the deaths of soldiers as mere ‘collateral damage.’ Ignorance allows us to drive our cars and pollute our air and our oceans and leave plastic bags and bottles and cigarette butts behind because we choose not to see or acknowledge the damaging effects of our actions. Ignorance allows people to turn a blind eye to human suffering, to animal cruelty, to police brutality, to sex trafficking, and to domestic violence and domestic terrorism.
Ignorance allows people to turn a blind eye. But, just because you turn your head in the other direction, does not mean that the reality we are all living in does not exist. Just because your head is in the sand does not mean that the world around you is just fine as it is.
Stop sticking your head in the sand. Guaranteed…if you spend your life with your head in the sand, it will seep into your eyes, your nose, your mouth and eventually suffocate you. Stop convincing yourself that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is grief, misery, and indifference shrouded in a gauzy, ephemeral, specious cloak.
Ignorance is the opposite of bliss.