Overcoming Our Ignorance Of Our Ignorance - Deepstash

Overcoming Our Ignorance Of Our Ignorance

To overcome the paradox of overcoming our own ignorance is itself a contradiction due to the fact that we need to look for something that we cannot see.

This is the same contradiction experienced by any conspiracy theorist: The basic premise of their belief (even if it is right) is based on zero-reasoning and the foundation that only they are the reasonable ones.

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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