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John Dewey wrote:Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

There are degrees of ignorance. People who truly don't know, but are willing to learn. People who pretend to know, and do not wish to learn. Some quite smack in the middle, unable to separate fact from fiction on the matter, unable to turn to in order to advance themselves in a meaningful way.

In your opinion, how do you view ingnorance in the human populace? Where do you think it prevails the most?

Where do you think it prevails the most?

The internet. Subsrcibing as I do to a Socratic view of ignorance and knowledge, the internet is where you will find the largest concentration of people who are unaware of their own ignorance and will profess understanding on subjects they know nothing about. We've all been guilty of it at times, I'm sure. Something about the nature of the anonymity on the internet fosters this kind of purified ignorance.

htj just pretty much won this thread, so to speak. I would toss in my two cents, but I would just be repeating what's already been said.

Also, WarOne, your sig makes me chuckle. Especially the fellow on the left with the stack of cash on his head...

CrashUSAR wrote:Also, WarOne, your sig makes me chuckle. Especially the fellow on the left with the stack of cash on his head...

I pick a theme each week or two.

Yesterday was the end of the PeeWee theme; my just tag say LOWER JAMBI LOWER with a picture of Pee Wee in rapture with eyes rolled back and head open. My forum signature was of him running out of a burning pet shop with lots of snakes before fainting, and my location was "Movie Theater...Doing Absolutely Nothing."

I try to make a reasonable attempt at the theme in some way.

Back on topic-

I ask this question on ignorance because that does get thrown out alot here in debate in the OT forum and want to see what the average Dakkanaught thinks on the subject.

I firmly supported the Peewee sigs. As far as ignorance goes, don't hate me for turning this mildly existential, but isn't ignorance slightly subjective? One te person may think someone knows a lot about something, but another may think they know nothing. You could measure how much they know in practice ("judging the tree by it's fruit"), but even then it could still be up for debate based on a million other factors.

htj wrote:

Where do you think it prevails the most?

The internet. Subsrcibing as I do to a Socratic view of ignorance and knowledge, the internet is where you will find the largest concentration of people who are unaware of their own ignorance and will profess understanding on subjects they know nothing about. We've all been guilty of it at times, I'm sure. ...

I don't know what you're talking about.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote: ignorance slightly subjective?

There are some types of ignorance that are not...

Unfortunately, it is these unsubjective types that seem to prevail...

I would like to think everyone is ignorant in one way or another. I myself have no idea with whats going on half the time, but I suppose that just makes every day different

It makes every other day different.

As old Rumsfeld said there are things that we don't know that we don't know. That's one kind of ignorance.

A more important kind is when we are aware that there are things we should inform ourselves about and we don't.

WarOne wrote:
In your opinion, how do you view ingnorance in the human populace? Where do you think it prevails the most?

Most people don't know most things.

dogma wrote:

WarOne wrote:
In your opinion, how do you view ingnorance in the human populace? Where do you think it prevails the most?

Most people don't know most things.

Hmmm. I was unaware of this.

dogma wrote:

WarOne wrote:
In your opinion, how do you view ingnorance in the human populace? Where do you think it prevails the most?

Most people don't know most things.

I like cats, but some people don't.

They ignint.

Albert Einstein wrote:Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.