Price Of Ignorance

The Price of Ignorance Lets start with an analogy visualise a fellow mammal with far inferior intellectual capacity to yourself, something tiny helpless and cute like a squirrel. This cute little thing with a brain smaller than a walnut still has a far superior idea about its environment than we humans do. The squirrel knows what animals are predators and how these predators can be avoided, what plants and nuts are food what is a safe place to hide and how to survive the elements.

The average person does not know what food is healthy, how to build a shelter, brave the elements and ESPECIALLY who and what our predators are. If you lived in a natural environment, this level of ignorance would kill you in days either by predators, poisonous

First you need to convince the people the war is justified and that it will protect them or improve their well-being. This is almost never true so every war in modern history was preceded by a propaganda campaign demonising the enemy. (look up Committee on Public Information) Then even if you manage to brainwash people into believing the war is justified you need to make them capable of killing. In Vietnam the U.S. Army found out that even uber patriotic well trained new soldiers were unwilling to fire at the enemy aiming instead several feet above their heads. Then if you turn normal men into killers you somehow have to keep them functional despite a slew of mental problems….after all in the modern day more U.S. soldiers die from suicide than

Bottom line is a human is easily fooled and we live in a world where a combination of the smartest and the most creative people work night and day to fool you. They will tell you that your uniqueness is best expressed in terms of what you wear, eat and drive. Your fears will be soothed by products be they cosmetics or underground bunkers, your sense of belonging satisfied by a football team and any dissatisfaction alleviated by prescription medication. This life and these products cost money which cost you’re your time in a job you probably do not love adding to this consumption cycle. Some highly motivated and competent people do not want to be enslaved in a job they do not like, but their dreams, aspirations and proclivity towards self-improvement is also captured by a culture that defines success through luxury and freedom through purchasing power. So today we have media that celebrate entrepreneurs and business people more for their capacity to hoard wealth rather than any activities which improve the world we live in. I mean imagine having the capacity to improve, even save millions of lives but then you think “naa… I cant do it cos I will lose my place in the Forbes top 100, and I worked really hard to get