Ignorance.
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burntheartist, I'd be worried to be near you in real life. If I happened not to have learned something in history class, you might punch me in the back of the head. Do you really think that educating people by violence will actually get anything done other than having everyone be pissed off at you? You'd get your ass kicked the first time you picked on someone who actually knew some self-defense.
On a less vitriolic note, the reason I think people get so pissed off about ignorance is because it's so easy to obtain information these days. I don't like it either, but most people would rather you Googled something than asked them the question -- I guess they see it as wasted breath or something. Whenever I don't know something, people deliberately don't answer me, and direct me to Google.
So the undercurrent is, if you don't know something, you should. Go look it up on Google. It's cake to obtain information now, and thus it is perceived that there is no excuse for not knowing something.
On a less vitriolic note, the reason I think people get so pissed off about ignorance is because it's so easy to obtain information these days. I don't like it either, but most people would rather you Googled something than asked them the question -- I guess they see it as wasted breath or something. Whenever I don't know something, people deliberately don't answer me, and direct me to Google.
So the undercurrent is, if you don't know something, you should. Go look it up on Google. It's cake to obtain information now, and thus it is perceived that there is no excuse for not knowing something.
For most of my childhood, I knew nothing about music. I thought New Kids on the Block was a group of new members in the neighborhood.
Anyway, I think the acceptability of one's ignorance depends on how active one wants to be in whatever they're ignorant about.
Jack Thompson wants to leave a permanent mark in the gaming industry and yet he knows next to nothing about the games he bashes.
Conversely, the Amish are pretty ignorant about the world around them, but everybody loves them because they only concern themselves with their inner community and have a live-and-let-live approach to the rest of the world.
Bottom line: If you want to change or impact something, take the time to learn about it.
Anyway, I think the acceptability of one's ignorance depends on how active one wants to be in whatever they're ignorant about.
Jack Thompson wants to leave a permanent mark in the gaming industry and yet he knows next to nothing about the games he bashes.
Conversely, the Amish are pretty ignorant about the world around them, but everybody loves them because they only concern themselves with their inner community and have a live-and-let-live approach to the rest of the world.
Bottom line: If you want to change or impact something, take the time to learn about it.
Hmmm. My post never showed up. Anyway, my moment of ignorance was with music in elementary school. I thought people discussing New Kids on the Block were acutally talking about some new people that moved into the neighborhood.
My stance on ignorance is that it depends on what you intend to do with your limited knowledge.
For example: Jack Thompson is reviled by everyone on this forum, because he intends to leave a permanent mark in gaming, and yet he knows next to nothing about the games he bashes.
On the other hand, the amish know very little about the world outside the community. However, since they tend to had a live-and-let-live approach to the world outside their community, everyone still loves them.
My bottom line is, if you want to get directly involved in something, take the time to learn about it.
My stance on ignorance is that it depends on what you intend to do with your limited knowledge.
For example: Jack Thompson is reviled by everyone on this forum, because he intends to leave a permanent mark in gaming, and yet he knows next to nothing about the games he bashes.
On the other hand, the amish know very little about the world outside the community. However, since they tend to had a live-and-let-live approach to the world outside their community, everyone still loves them.
My bottom line is, if you want to get directly involved in something, take the time to learn about it.
I, as someone with an extreme amount of knowledge about the most random topics in my head, am perpetually annoyed by this. In most circumstances I will not hold it against a person though. Unless they don't know something they should know from lower education or picking up a newspaper sometime in the last decade.
I am guilty of knowing nothing about music, celebrities, and teen dramas. Then again I am not sure that is a bad thing.
I am guilty of knowing nothing about music, celebrities, and teen dramas. Then again I am not sure that is a bad thing.
Came here to say this. Everyone is ignorant of the majority of knowledge in the world, but it's not that most people don't care; it's that they have, whaddaya call it, shit to do. But if given the opportunity, I don't doubt most people soak up any kind of knowledge they can find in their situation.loc978 said:
The people who don't will pay, oh yes...
oh shit did i just type that