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Originally Posted by LearnMe
No, the problem isn't JUST ignorance, but I think ignorance is perhaps our biggest problem, and I'd say "willful ignorance" is about as ignorant as it gets. Not sure how important it is to distinguish one form of ignorance from another, but what you describe is also known as confirmation bias, which we all tend to struggle with to some extent or another. Unfortunately, there are too many people unaware or perhaps too ignorant to recognize how they are allowing themselves to become victims of confirmation bias. Like the person who has food on their face and doesn't know it...
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Interesting subject about ignorance... Some distinguishing factors about the "insanity" that is derived from willful ignorance.
Therefore, to such types, Any Lie will suffice when one is afflicted by Ignorance:
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge or awareness
Willful Ignorance is when one is too Ignorant to know they are without informed knowledge and
refuse to review to seek factual information to gain knowledge.
When one is willfully ignorant and refuses to seek information and reject the knowledge found, then that become "stupidity"...
When one is of choice to accept stupidity, and too ignorantly absorbed in the stupidity, to know they have become stupid, then one is dealing with an Imbecile.
An Imbecile is one who is led by and within their stupidity, to choose to remain stupid and act out willfully upon their stupidity.
It is likely then such one may instantaneously become barbaric.
These types can be led by "Drama", Rebel Rousing Belligerence, and they assume belligerence madness and the mentality of attack something as being a sign of strength... then one is dealing with a Barbarous one.
a barbarous person :
a rude, crude, uneducated, uncivilized person
Such types are self centered and live in perpetual desperation to hoard something, covet something, and driven by malice and vice of any sort to try and fill the void that Greed has within them, They become ones consumed by "Avarice"
Avarice= excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain
Within such types it can be found such things as:
"Bigotry",
"Bias",
"Prejudice of many sorts",
"Racism",
"Gender Bias",
"Exaggerated levels of Vanity",
"Delusion of Grandeur",
"Belligerence",
"Gluttony",
"Slothfulness",
"Haughtiness",
"Contemptuousness" ,
"Jealously",
"Envy",
"Rage",
and a high propensity for violence.
Such types live in a fiction of Confabulations.
Confabulation = a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.
Thus so... Ignorance becomes an infected condition that repeats the cycles - and that produces the "Insanity" that is derived from the onset of willful ignorance into the repetition of its progressive condition of remaining Ignorant.
(Thus you have what is the Current Day Republican System formerly known as Confederacy Mentality.)