“Ignorance is bliss”,
as an apolitical and egotistical response when being pushed to be aware, has spawned several other variations of itself that are just as useless for our people. In conversations about #politics, #economics, or even #socialization, it is common to hear phrases like “agree to disagree” which is severely misused. “Agree to disagree” is supposed to represent an amicable but temporary #truce in which both sides of the argument agree to disagree at the current moment, but promise to resume the conversation later. Instead, “agree to disagree” is flung around passive aggressively, representing a liberalism in which incorrect ideas are permitted to slide by for the sake of friendship or other social benefits. Then there are “it’s not that deep” and “let people enjoy things” which get tossed around when a conversation demands a level of critical thinking which may be inconvenient to the reality a person believes they need to uphold.
In a world full of challenges which desperately requires sharp minds to resolve them, we should view phrases like these as methods of #counterinsurgency that prevent us from pursuing #awareness of not only past and present conditions, but of the way things could be in the future as well. This is a part of the #responsibility we have to choose life!
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Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire said
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral”.
