"How embarrassing to be human." Kurt Vonnegut

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Standing near the edge can be pretty 'blackpilling', as they call it. Gray nailed it in his poem. 

  No more; where ignorance is bliss,

  'Tis folly to be wise.

Vonnegut couldn't have chosen a more benign and massively understated word than 'embarrassment'. Can I have my ignorance back, please?