Salomé
meh
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w4
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/sp
^ As simple as possible -- but no simpler.
What meaning is there in any life? Does knowledge give life meaning? Does knowledge add to happiness? Rarely. The acquisition of knowledge is just a compulsion for our type which compensates for other deficiencies - no need to elevate it to the sublime.Ignorance may be bliss, but what meaning is there in an ignorant life? It has no value whatsoever.
That isn't the point. They only need be aware of bliss, not their own ignorance. It is ignorance of their own ignorance that contributes to such bliss! It is disparity and inequality that leads to most dissatisfaction and unhappiness. If we were all equally ignorant, the world would seem to be a perfect place - I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.My point was that life is what you, as an individual, make of it. The problem I have with ignorance is bliss. Is that the ignorant, wouldn't be aware of themselves being blissfully ignorant. And on the other side. You can't unknow what you know and become more ignorant. So the whole idea of ignorance is a futile perspective.