Ignorance
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The final, most intractable aspect of incomplete knowledge is
ignorance.
Just as no revolution lasts forever, political
ignorance
and disillusion can also be overcome.
Getting this right is vital: if the future is not to be shaped by
ignorance
and narrow-mindedness, we need knowledge and informed debate more than ever before.
In some ways, “they” are our own buried past and, with a combination of ignorance, prejudice, and, above all, fear, “we” are afraid that “they” could define our future.
In our globalized age, we have lost the privilege – and, paradoxically, the virtue – of
ignorance.
Globalization has paved the way to a world dominated by the dictatorship of emotions – and of
ignorance.
People almost never reject technological progress out of sheer
ignorance.
Latin America’s Reform PrioritiesSAN JOSE, COSTA RICA -- We seldom acknowledge that lack of knowledge – ignorance, if you like – impairs the spending decisions of policymakers and international aid organizations.
There are three possibilities: ignorance, intention, and strategic interaction.
Ignorance
is a weak explanation.
If the government is ignorant, its
ignorance
was a deliberate choice.
This view translates into policies aimed at better mobilizing society’s financial risk-bearing capacity, and that use the public sector to outwit the forces of time and
ignorance
that curb willingness to engage in risky investments.
We face a potential crisis, therefore, that stems from our fundamental
ignorance
about the biosphere, for it is impossible to be proactive about species of pathogens whose existence has not been documented.
But poverty and
ignorance
can thwart even the best intentions.
In almost willful
ignorance
of the fact that the growth-centered model has proved itself time and again, skeptics advocate an alternative “redistributive” developmental model, which they believe will have a greater impact on reducing poverty.
Rather, amid widespread
ignorance
and apathy, government and law enforcement have lacked the motivation to administer existing laws adequately.
In Brave New World, he described a human race that, by 2540, has been destroyed by ignorance, a lust for constant entertainment, the dominance of technology, and an overabundance of material goods.
Formulating public policy towards science and technology may be difficult, but if democracy is to take public opinion appropriately into account, good government must discount
ignorance
and prejudice.
This mixture of hubris, ignorance, and subservience to commercial interests reached peak toxicity in 1990, when the UK’s agriculture minister, John Gummer, televised his daughter eating a hamburger, declaring that British beef was safe.
But
ignorance
can be as dangerous as malice, especially when it is backed by great power.
Second, regardless of whether modern macroeconomists attribute our current difficulties to causes that are “patently unrealistic” or simply confess ignorance, why do they have such a different view than we economic historians do?
Regardless of whether they have rejected our interpretations and understandings or simply have built or failed to build their own in
ignorance
of what we have done, why have they not used our work?
One of the most remarkable things about Trump is the extent of his own ignorance, despite his high educational attainment, and the fact that he seems to benefit from flaunting it.
Frequently, these conditions are not diagnosed, or are diagnosed late as a result of health-care professionals’
ignorance
of what to look for, or their inability to communicate with non-verbal people.
This permanent diet of paranoia has created something akin to a nationwide insane asylum, where ignorance, terror, and suspicion rule.
Board members need to rethink what they are doing in those rooms, and here individual directors’ guiding principle should be the “veil of ignorance” proposed by the political philosopher John Rawls in his 1971 treatise A Theory of Justice.
Rawls proposed the veil of
ignorance
as a way to derive principles of social justice to which anyone who did not know in advance their identity and position in society would consent.
How would the veil of
ignorance
work in a boardroom?
The veil of
ignorance
changes the nature of the discussion on almost every issue, from executive pay, wage discrepancies, and working conditions to long-term strategy, succession planning, and much more.
Many issues that should be viewed through the veil of
ignorance
fall into the categories of environmental sustainability, social equity, and corporate governance.
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