Ignorance like everything has positives and negatives. It has its downside and it has its usefulness. In fact it is extremely useful and it can be said that ignorance has the potential to bring about bliss.
It also has negatives. For example not being able to accomplish as much as someone who is not ignorant, missing out on good feelings and good things that come from knowing and understanding because although short lived, knowing and understanding has a blissful side and also understanding leads to better results to solving problems.
We have to know that total ignorance is not being alive. It is not being able experience anything at all. That would kill everything.
Being alive and being where we are today ignorance can help a lot in many ways. For example eating something very delicious and not being told that it is a dog that I am eating would help me not to feel disgusted and enjoy my meal. Not seeing graphic and disturbing things while living a normal life would help me not get disturbed by those images and help me continue living my normal life undisturbed. Not knowing that I am going to die will definitely reduce the stress that I may feel if I was dying.
Trying to understand, understanding and labeling everything may have usefulness but may kill the bliss out of your life. But we should not forget being a fully developed human being, not understanding anything will turn your life in to fear, confusion and total chaos.
I guess we should know and understand things. But we should definitely leave a space for doubt. If we try to know and know everything(Which I do not believe is possible) or if we think we know everything there is to know we would have killed the joy out of our lives. We ourselves are great examples of that thought. For example when we were kids we didn't know as much and there were a lot of mysteries. That state of curiosity gave us a lot more joy of life than when we think that we have it figured out like today.
By Alazar Desta
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