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When you're young, people tell you that you're too young to understand the complex issues of life. When you reach adulthood, you're surrounded by people who are "too old" to understand new ideas. When did people become so fucking stupid in our country?
I hate willful ignorance and the morons who perpetuate it. Willful ignorance, and the complacency that accompanies it, is arguably the most lethal blight to our society.
Here's why: People who have knowledge are more often than not willing to share their knowledge with the less informed. For example, if you were to drive to the nearest community college and ask a biology professor to explain Darwin's theory of natural selection, you'll probably walk away understanding how it works, why it happens, and what kind of predictions can be made about future generations.
The problem is that people are unwilling to look for answers to their questions. Why is the sky blue? It just is! (Or even worse, "God made it like that.") How a person could be completely satisfied with an intellectually dishonest answer baffles the hell out of me. Even worse are the people who don't even think about questions. "I'm too old to understand computers."
BULLSHIT! You might not have the same amount of knowledge to build your understanding of computers that a teenager who uses one every day has, but that doesn't mean that you have computer illiteracy hard-wired into your fucking brain.
Another idea that puts me at risk for a stroke is, "My child is too young to understand sex."
BULLSHIT! If your child is old enough to form an idea into a coherent sentence, then your child is old enough to understand sex. If the stupidest people on the planet can procreate, it isn't exactly rocket science. If these failed parents want to be honest, they should say, "I'm too embarrassed to teach my child what sex is because he/she might think I had sex, and that would shame me." Grow a pair, you fucking pansies. You aren't perfect, and any kid stupid enough to think you are perfect is destined to die playing in traffic. You won't let them down by telling them what fucking is, but you WILL let society down by not telling them what fucking is.
I consider myself lucky that my parents never bullshitted me when I was a kid. If I asked a question, I either got an honest answer or we hit the books looking for one. How many kids grew crystals out of borax or made homemade rock candy just because they could?
Willful ignorance starts with the parents, progresses throughout primary and secondary school as a result of willfully ignorant teachers, and culminates in the workforce as a result of willfully ignorant managers who don't want to think about anything outside the microcosm of the job they're underpaid to complete. If there were less parents promoting bullshit and complacency, then society would begin to phase out the willful ignorance. In under fifty years, we could be rid of these bullshit ideas formed on worthless assumptions about irrelevant qualities (such as age).
Will that ever happen? Not without the effort of parents across the nation. There isn't much that can be done about the existing quantities of willful ignorance, other than waiting for the ignorant to slowly die off.
If any parents are reading this, all you have to do is stop perpetuating bullshit. I know you want to protect your children and make them successful at life, but protecting your children from the truth is only going to hurt them. The child with honest parents will be stronger than the children whose parents bullshitted them during their developmental years. Tell them what sex is, let them have a reasonable amount of free reign on the computer, and never be afraid to answer any question they ask. The fate of the future, and my blood pressure, depends on you.
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