Agnotology is the study of ignorance. Blurring the truth, creating false data to influence us to fight each other & buy products that 
might not be good for us. Once a truth is undermined, and little interest shown to correct it: then sensation becomes the new truth.
Propaganda, Political influence, mistruths grow in times of collapse. A past set of truths die, leading to a nostalgic longing for a return to a perceived stability in a previous era of truths.
This works so well with humans is because our psyches thrive on ignorance. An ignorance of ourselves seals us into a view of ourselves formed in our personal cultures/families which suits the function of the group. The idea of our sureness (ignorance) in knowing keeps us alive.
This knowing poem gives us the idea of developmental stages of knowing as we grow from childhood to adulthood. Yet our ignorance would counter this. We mature through time not an awareness of our ignorance.
The passing of time/ageing does not defy ignorance. Some might say the opposite. Perhaps for the human psyche the job of dispelling our own ignorance has no purpose. Ignorance keeps us sheltered & safe.
But here we are. We find ourselves in a world where the human psyche is so stretched & torn having access to billions of social contacts with the ability to only have 150. For safety we have to hold onto our ignorance to protect us from the infinite number of views & ideas.
The world is propelled through a universal ignorance which leaves the owners of unfettered technology a clear path to ………..
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