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[–]magnora7 15 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

"Deliberate ignorance" plays a much larger role in modern culture than I would've ever suspected when I was younger. Some people don't want to hear the truth about some things, because it means then they might have to think about it, which then means they might have to change their worldview and then adjust their patterns of behavior.

Some people are so addicted to their comfortable worn-in patterns of existing that the idea of trying something else scares them so much that they'll literally knowingly lie to themselves with thought-terminating cliches and known propaganda, just to keep the words from entering their conscious mind.

They're scared it might awaken something in them that might put them in conflict with the social hierarchy they've spent their lives trying to climb. Because they know, deep down, that "playing the game" is all a bunch of bullshit and a lot of it isn't morally right.

But if they never consider that possibility in the first place, then they're not a bad guy. Because then they're just acting out of ignorance rather than malice, which society deems more acceptable. So they just disallow themselves from consciously realizing anything that might make them the bad guy.

Ignorance is bliss, right?

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

One would think that somebody who creates a free speech site and knows all this would find a hosting solution that isn't resolutely against free speech? How do YOU reconcile two opposing halves of your own mind?

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We have rules, the rules must be followed. This is not a free-for-all, and it never was.

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OK I get that. Now what about my question please?