Ignorance is bliss m'lady

The human mind is a network with billions of neurons that are conductive to nerve impulses. I think ignorance is like an open circuit. People stop the flow of information by opening the circuit and breaking connections for whatever reason. They reject being concuctive to understanding. Some people chose ignorance because a circuit has been underexposed to stimulus from the rejected source and some because the circuit has been over-exposed and weakened by the source. In both instances they refuse to try to process any added data in order because it threatens to destabalize the very foundation of their network.

Thus, most people, when they sever a connection never realize that they have done it and will defend to no end their ignorance. In the case of the extremely ignorant, if suddenly all of their open circuits were closed the rush of stimulation would probably create a total mental meltdown. Oddly enough, it is the most ignorant of people who consider themselves flawless becuase to admit a flaw would mean closing a circuit and allowing new data to circulate.

Consider all the things that ignorance creates ouside of the obvious cultural intolerance. Ignorance fuels things like domestic violence and phobias.

In the case of domestic violence, it is proven that those who are abusive were abused and witness abuse; and I think this is a case of over-exposure, the mind opens a circuit at some point to protect itself, the information process is interrupted and thus the mind never learns an appropriate way to deal with anger.

In the case of phobias, take for example arachnophobia; a person might be badly scared by a spider and open a mental circuit to protect the mind from recieving more possibly terrifying information about spiders. The mind then stops processing information about spiders correctly. One can read that a spider is completely harmless because the mind has not been exposed to a flow of "harmless stimuli" thus, the person will never experience anything but fear until the circuit is closed and the flow of information is resumed and the mind is exposed to the harmlessness.

I think that at some point in everyone's life, ignorance is bliss because it saves our mind from becoming unstable. Circuits are repaired every day like getting over the fear of falling and learning to walk, some we don't know exist and some we stumble upon during life and have to chose whether or not to close the circuit.

I think only the fearless are free of ignorance; and a person without a trace of fear is insane. I think a person who would say that they are ignorance free and sane as well is admitting that they are in fact one of the most ignorant people.

People who are willing to analyze their own circuit board and close opened circuits are brave but it doesn't make them better than those who can't or give them the right to condemn them, I think it is the duty of those who who are understanding of themselves to be understanding to others as well. You never know, that person may have closed a cicuit that you do not even realized you opened. The more networks you accept the more ignorance you can defeat.

EEEEK.... okay, long winded, but it's my philosophy.