The world can no longer plead ignorance to Sudan’s suffering
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The important role of ignorance in building a better society
Excerpted from Ignorance: What We Do Not Know, Cannot Know, Must Not Know, and Refuse to Know by George G. Szpiro. Published by Columbia University Press. Copyright © 2026. All rights reserved. Imagine that you live in total freedom among a group of people unencumbered by traditions, customs, and any other restrictions. Would that be the pinnacle of joy? Maybe not so much. There would be no government, no police, no fire department, no traffic laws, no court of justice; life would be totally free but totally lawless. As the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) wrote in his magnum opus Leviathan, there would be no culture, no navigation, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no arts, no letters, no society; instead, there would be rapes, thefts, murders, and continual fear of violence. Human life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” As more and more people began to live in close proximity, they realized the need for some sort of arrangement among themselves as an alternative to the chaotic state of nature. …
People Who Have No Clue How Real Life Works Almost Always Use 11 Phrases In Casual Conversations
While wealthy, advantaged people in society today often try to cover up and hide their privilege to protect their image and social perceptions, most actually have little knowledge about the reality of the world for marginalized, low-income, or disadvantaged individuals around them. While their behaviors might be easy to conceal, people who have no clue how real life works almost always use phrases in casual conversations that give them away. Whether it’s a kind of selfishness that only people who have been spoiled adopt or a passiveness that overlooks empathy toward those who are struggling, these groups of people are clearly ignorant and privileged in a way that narrows their perspective of the world. People who have no clue how real life works almost always use 11 phrases in casual conversations 1. ‘That’s not fair’ fizkes | Shutterstock Many entitled people operate with a misguided view of fairness in their lives, believing that anything that’s not accommodating, convenient, or comfortable for them is immediately “unfair.” However, accepting that the world isn’t fair all the time gives people …
Interminable Ignorance | Robert Pogue Harrison
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” to quote T.S. Eliot, nor can it bear much truth. Just as our sensory organs filter out all but a fraction of what surrounds us, our minds deflect from consciousness a great deal of what we can bear only in small measures. Our ability to ignore, repress, and deny is matched only by our ability to believe the unbelievable and to give chimeric notions the power to found religions, nations, and institutions. The mind’s extravagant imagination—its freedom to wander far beyond the bounds of the real—lies at the root of the “poetic wisdom” that gave rise to the earliest human thinking and social organizations, according to Giambattista Vico, who in his New Science declared, “Ignorance, the mother of wonder, made everything wonderful to men who were ignorant of everything.” For most of its history and prehistory, the human race has lived in various states of ignorance and wonder. Even today most of us will accept the disenchantments of knowledge only with great reluctance. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Beyond Good …
AOC’s Ignorance Is No Laughing Matter
Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, Over the past week or so, many on the political Right have understandably enjoyed a laugh or two at the expense of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.). AOC went to the Munich Security Conference to provide “balance” to the Trump administration’s presence and to burnish her own credentials on the global stage. Instead, she mostly just made a fool of herself. Not only did she stutter, stammer, and offer a Kamala Harris-esque non-answer when asked about American interests in and obligations to Taiwan, but she also demonstrated a comically poor grasp of geography and a righteously ignorant understanding of history. In an effort to rebut and embarrass U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, AOC embarrassed only herself, showing that historical facts mean far less to her than identity-inspired fiction. But while it’s inarguably fun to chuckle at and mock the ignorance of the smug congresswoman and presumed presidential aspirant, it is also important to acknowledge that her historical and political illiteracy extends beyond the superficial and touches on matters of real …
Elon Musk shows total ignorance of Tesla’s current falling sales trajectory
Days after Tesla released dismal 2025 sales numbers, CEO Elon Musk took to twitter to not only overestimate the company’s current production numbers, but to wrongly claim that they are “rising” after two years of declines. Tesla’s delivery results, released Friday, showed total 2025 vehicle deliveries of 1.63 million vehicles. That’s a whole lot of cars, and puts Tesla in 2nd place globally for EV deliveries, behind Chinese EV maker BYD. 2nd place is no slouch, but it’s a decline from Tesla’s previous position as the world’s leader in EVs. And that change in places comes not just from delivery growth for BYD, but a decline in Tesla sales, despite global EV market which continues to rise Advertisement – scroll for more content Tesla’s sales decline was even worse than Tesla’s own low expectations. And the decline is even worse in some territories, like Europe. And this year’s decline builds on a previous decline from last year, meaning Tesla’s sales have now declined for two years in a row, for the first time in the …