Ignorance

Oct 26, 2016 14:20


Is ignorance a bliss? I suppose it is because choosing to be ignorant allows to remain in a warm cocoon of prefect world where everything makes sense.

What brings this on you ask? A conversation I had with Moroccan co-worker (he is actually not a co-worker, just happened to work for the same company) about Israeli/Palestinian conflict (of course!)

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l_sylvanas October 26 2016, 19:12:12 UTC
...he probably googled all of that, too...

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0242 October 27 2016, 00:18:07 UTC
> remain in a warm cocoon of prefect world where everything makes sense

The older I get the more I wonder why anyone would choose otherwise. As if there isn't enough drama _in_ the cocoon, why search for more drama outside of it proactively?

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matrixmann January 10 2017, 07:41:30 UTC
That shit has such a long story that goes way back that people assume on average that it's only about that what happened after WWII down there.
Simply expressed, a lack of education, but to be honest, there's surely barely a country which teaches it to you at school in a way that you remember it there was more than that.

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x_minx_x January 11 2017, 14:55:32 UTC
You are right. In general schools are doing very poor job teaching students World History, nevermind covering such big and complicated topics like Israeli/Palestinian conflict, or Yugoslavia war and so on. We are slowing going back to Dark Ages.

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matrixmann January 11 2017, 15:57:38 UTC
As I've heard it through others, even the coverage of WWII in history classes at school can be very variable and dependent on if the teacher puts personal value on it or not. Even the more it is the case with German history what happened after the end of the war, for example the partition. For German school, teaching you nothing to barely anything about German history after WWII, that's pretty poor.

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