Amathia

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The Writer Hunter Ash once argued that the smartest, best educated will use what they know not to understand the world, but to win an argument for their tribe. And as I see it the number of folks trying to understand reality is vanishingly small.

The ancient Greeks had a term for this. They called it amathia. And they believed it would be the downfall of civilization.

Essentially it is the refusal to Know. It is the self-conviction that you already know enough. It is the position for whatever reason that they are already right, and you are already wrong.

That stance is alarming similar to what we are seeing today in America right now. There is no dialogue between the forces ( the two major parties ) with regard to how we can improve things for those that are really hurting. It's a roadblock. It's polarization. Basically it's between these 2 parties that call themselves the left and the right and insist that they are the end-all.

This is because of mule-headed insistence that whatever whims they are currently holding onto are correct and the other side is simply wrong.

This bickering keeps us impotent. And it keeps our vision linear. In other words we never look UP. ( at the billionaires )
and the Fat Cats are laughing at us. They know that these 2 parties will keep them safe and free to enjoy the lifestyle that unequal wealth provides for them. And they see the two parties as Capitalism's Chumps.....Why ?....because they never look UP. They see the two parties as too dumb to ever look Up ( despite each party believing they are smarter than the other one)

It would be a clever ploy for those with ungodly wealth, if it weren't so utterly sad.

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Very interesting thanks for posting
Probably nothing todo with it but the first time I tripped I read The Geneology of Morals and The Birth of Srategy. The words were turning into thick black worms that crawed across the page and fell off the edge. But I read on and on.
I can't remember much of it now except that Nietzsche hardon for Socrates.

pardon the ramble
A Brief Ethical Analysis of Ignorance

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I don't remember be able to read when I tripped....