Refusing to know about things is a valid form of civil disobedience

Ignorance, like exercise, was not regarded as precious in the past because it was always plentiful.

But the nature and methods of the cultivation of ignorance are perhaps even more mysterious than those of knowledge.

One can’t, through will, forget how to read; at best, one can forget, at times, to attend.

(how impressive and magical would it be, though, if one of us managed to forget how to read through long effort)

turns out we’ve been going about this all wrong https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/1097104283437285376

We can appreciate our own beauty, but we cannot appreciate the grandeur of our own magnificent ignorance except in interaction with others.