Ignorance is bliss.
If the above statement is true then what is learning? What is the need to learn and what to learn? Is it the survival skills or the something more meaningful than that(tried to find something else to write here, but in vain). If its the survival skills, we are no different the other animals(animals learn those skills much faster). Then what should we learn?
Now the other side.. How do we remain ignorant? Can we be totally ignorant? Seems almost impossible to me, with so much dynamicity in the environment we live in. So, does that mean we can never get to bliss:(
Experience is definately learning which makes us less ignorant(or does it). Is books, media etc, a way of learning or a another thread to remain ignorant.
Is learning ignorance??(now i have crossed the line, pundits have agreed, it must be true, opposites then!!!)
Learning makes one learned about something and also ignorant about something else. Its a trade-off one has to make when one starts learning(as if there is a choice),atleast in this kind of an age wherein there is so much information.
So learn as much as one can to become more ignorant, which is bliss, assuming that ignorance is bliss!!
VD
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If you have lived to cross twenty, then believe me that you have learnt enough to survive. Right at your birth you came with a survival kit which was ingrained in your genes. So much for genetics! But how much of what one learns one knows is hard to tell. Trouble comes when you confuse learning with reading and creating opinions. Now you know that you can drink regular water served at a restaurant in Bangalore and not fall sick, unlike an American. That you know. You have not read it anywhere. No one has told you that. But do you know the structure of an atom? You might have learnt a number of hypothesis but that does not equate with knowledge. Same holds for all the philosophies. You may agree or disagree with someone else' outlook but you have to find one for yourself to really know it. And that is knowing. One thing that I know for sure is that the more I read, the more I think, the more I argue the more confused i get and the less I know. The answers I will have to find by myself. I just hope all this probing helps me become fit to find them.
I agree with you that reading and creating opinions is definately not learning, but definately a part of it.And the answers which we all have find out by some way of which we have no clue(as we have no clue what we are learning or moreover how and where are we ignorant!!)
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