Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

April 1, 2009 by Dale Everett
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head, Essay

After writing several blog posts about how we live in a slave society, sometimes I wonder if I’d be personally better off if I could somehow return to that blissful ignorance of the inherent violence of statism. Maybe this struggle for freedom is a losing battle and we’d all be better off if we could just accept it and get on with our lives, just live the best slave lives possible. I was just chatting with the guy who inspired the Angry Josh character and he was expressing how he can’t believe most people aren’t as angry as he is. I think they are actually. They just don’t really understand what exactly they’re angry at.

I’ve watched my mom when she’s baby-sitting little children and they bump their noggin on something. My mom will smack the table and say “Bad table! Why’d you do that?” and then encourage the kid to do the same. The kid would slap the table angrily and quickly stop crying as if the pain has been relieved. Of course being the extremely rational type, I’m tempted to tell the kid “Watch where you’re going and you’ll have a lot less bumps on your head, dumbass,” but my mom realizes that toddlers aren’t ready for that level of logic. They’re just mad because they hurt.

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4 Comments on Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

Shepherd on Thu, 2nd Apr 2009 8:17 am

Very well written. I have often wrestled with the very same question. Would I be happier if I could just go back to being a sheeple, ignorantly unaware of my own enslavement? I often feel like Cypher from the Matrix. I sometimes wish I could go back and take the blue pill instead of the red pill.

I most often feel this way when at a social event and someone happens to bring up the topic of politics. They don’t even try to hide their rolling eyes as I speak up about individual liberty and how government is force and unjust. They look at me with pity and wonder aloud how I could be so naive to think we could live without government and all the good things government does for us. Sure, we have to deal with all the bad things like war and bailouts, but it for the good of all of us.

I tend to get very frustrated at their pack mentalities. It always ends up being me vs a group of my ‘betters’ who understand the benevolent benefits of government. Aw, to go back to the days when I thought government truly had our best interests at heart and that government was here to keep us safe and secure.

However, when I really start to down and feeling alone in my beliefs, I think of the day I will finally be able to tear up my roots and move to New Hampshire where I can find Zion inhabited by others with the knowledge that the Matrix isn’t real.

Ian on Thu, 2nd Apr 2009 10:34 am

That day coming soon?

Shepherd on Thu, 2nd Apr 2009 12:18 pm

Not soon enough, but eventually. And yes I have already signed up for the Free State Project. Hope within the next 2-3 years to be able to make it. Hope I can last that long here in Ohio.

jon neuzil on Thu, 2nd Apr 2009 8:46 pm

of course it is a great thing to allow these issues to receive your consciousness. as more people move from the state of ignorance to to one of awareness, the power of that awareness will grow until enough of the creative power endowed upon us by our creator will be concentrated and we will be able to change anything.

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