Ignorance is a bliss - probably humanity's most cliche sentence.
But there's some truth behind it.
A small child, in normal conditions, would see the world in
a warm, optimistic, hopeful way. She believes the unknown will be positive once
it is revealed, and it is exciting the infinite things to discover. Not all
kids are beams of joy, obviously, but most of them are in a way.
An old man, in normal conditions, sees the world in a cold,
tired, pessimistic way. Unless he have had become wise enough to protect
himself from reality by focusing the positive while ignoring all the rest. He
already experienced too many things and his statistic brain realized that most
of them are negative, that there is a not so pretty reason behind even the beautiful
things, that the world isn't fair, and rules aren't for everyone, that illusion
and deceive are more like to be the rule, not the exception (not always intentional
or conscious).
He sees reality and realizes it's not exactly a pleasant
thing to see.
What differentiates drastically those two groups? The
experience, knowledge. The first one is ignorant, while the second one knows
more than he would like.
But ignorance is a false form of happiness, based on
reveries with little or no contact to reality. I don't know of a single grumpy
realist that would like to forfeit what he knows in exchange for a little more of
illusory happiness.
Posted by Ricardo Ceratti.
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