Is ignorance bliss better than knowledgeable gloom?
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- Created on: 28-10-22 12:51
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- Is ignorant bliss better than knowledgeable gloom?
- Yes
- Having people live longer, more pleasant lives, informed people are weighed down with the words of the world.
- product of disposition
- some people
- view more ignorance = less sadness
- Elderly people
- More upbeat (selection bias)
- happy life
- ignorant on some things
- happy life
- More upbeat (selection bias)
- Elderly people
- view more ignorance = less sadness
- some people
- Sceptics are more unhappy than believers
- intellectual honesty
- logical despair and self-conscious
- gloom
- logical despair and self-conscious
- No
- Colin Wilson - The Outsider
- “How on earth can someone live if they’d rather be right than happy?”
- Happy people
- appallingly dull
- embraced by a suffocating cloak of asinine
- knowledge allows us to question things
- more accurate and allows more an insightful picture of life
- disengaged with society and we're meant to learn and overcome greed
- knowledge allows us to question things
- embraced by a suffocating cloak of asinine
- appallingly dull
- 10th of ten commandments of living
- "Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in fools paradise, for only a fool would think that it is happiness"
- would you swap sanity (being in touch with reality) for insanity (goodness)?
- knowledge makes people feel "alive" and "active" commonly according to George Bernard Shaw
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- knowledge makes people feel "alive" and "active" commonly according to George Bernard Shaw
- Only the truth (which can be complicated and cumbersome) can lead to real connection with the essence of things
- like with human beings and life
- amelioration and progression
- knowledge drives us to making actions which is essential within society
- have empirical facts about the world rather than following the rose-tinted narrative by media that monetises anxiety and fear
- shown by Covid -19 Pandemic
- have empirical facts about the world rather than following the rose-tinted narrative by media that monetises anxiety and fear
- knowledge drives us to making actions which is essential within society
- amelioration and progression
- like with human beings and life
- they're both double-edged swords
- even if it leads to misery, it is better to help society by being informed
- "ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise" (on martial relationships but could be applied ubiquitously)
- Colin Wilson - The Outsider
- Middle ground
- Levels of happiness and contentment based on primarily on personality and out of our control
- not very much of a choice
- the idea and concept of what is 'better'
- subjective
- just be a good person and working out who is living their best
- how people look onto life irrespective of their level of knowledge
- ignorant people (some)
- pessimistic but lack insight
- some educated folk
- charming and sunny
- more knowledgeable on topics
- diagnosed with terminal illness
- more aware of death
- most people avoid talking about
- most use euphemistic language such as 'passing away', 'expired'
- more aware of death
- diagnosed with terminal illness
- ignorant people (some)
- subjective
- must be a balance in which they cannot be overwhelmed by each other
- Levels of happiness and contentment based on primarily on personality and out of our control
- Yes
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