Ignorance

We've all heard the trite saying, ignorance is bliss, and it would seem that this is true. People prefer not to know certain things, out of a desire to keep the status quo. This is disappointing but it happens. Although I have a problem with this, my biggest problem is with those who actively shun other opinions, simply to avoid being wrong, or having their mind changed, or when people faced with an argument, simply ignore that the argument was ever presented and go on living their lives as if that logic entered their minds.

I believe it comes completely out fear. For some strange reason, we fear our minds being changed. This is why conversions, or even "de-conversions", are so scary for us. We are comfortable in our current state, why leave it?

But at some point we are going to have to leave that state. Our ideas are going to be challenged; our opinions tested. To continue in ignorance, to decide that our comfortable state is more important than living with reason and knowledge, is to accept that lies are a better form of living than anything close to the truth.