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judboosh (October 11, 2008 at 3:27 am)
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WTF?
N0xyde (October 10, 2008 at 1:45 am)
Idiot.
mtheory85 (September 29, 2008 at 4:45 am)
Ah, but the beauty of it is that most ignorant people don't know that they are ignorant, and thus feel more secure than they actually are.
Stevehtegreatgr (September 29, 2008 at 12:16 am)
I doubt that ignorant people are happy. Being ignorant means being weak, being weak means that if the sky is clear you'll have a good life for a while but if clouds of disaster may come you'll forever be on the run, hooking to a new person or ideology until it would betray you once again.
No; living in ignorance is hell in waiting, to avoid this very oncoming hell some people pursued knowledge for...
mtheory85 (September 24, 2008 at 10:02 pm)
For many people, having true freedom and absolute sovereignty over their life is a recipe for misery, since it has several implications. Among those implications, it means that there is no fate-buffer against intellectual laziness, and thus requires that we actually USE our minds. Most people seem to be happier being ignorant. Ignorance is not the friend of the existentialist philosophy of absolute free will.
Stevehtegreatgr (September 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm)
Indeed, Satre's definition of freedom is very different than what most people understand of freedom. If you pursuit that kind of freedom you may become miserable but you don't have to become a wild beast to be free. Eventually freedom is relative to the unnecessary constraints of your culture, those are the ones you have to live without and try to make the society to be without.
nyclear (September 24, 2008 at 10:50 am)
Sartre was brilliant but he was trying to figure this all out while on tons of speed......adrenals shot etc.......he wasnt a happy guy.........and he had a physiology that supported that unhappiness.......being "truly free" has a different definition to Satre than what "True Freedom" actually is: being free from the clutches of your mind.....if you have ever experienced that (athletes call it 'being in the zone') it is utter happiness......and you can be like that all the time if you work at it.
mtheory85 (September 24, 2008 at 3:47 am)
It is very easy to be miserable being truly free, and is more likely. If you read up on Sartre, you'll see why.
haerverk (September 14, 2008 at 6:43 am)
I must have show this to hundreds of people by now :D Had this been more widely known and appreciated, we would probably live in a completely different societ.
Most relevant TED ever!
Stevehtegreatgr (August 23, 2008 at 9:39 pm)
Who are those dumb people you talk of? Certainly there are smarter people than others but that's irrelevant, if you know how to think then you'll always act according to your needs and your intelligence. I hate the word "wisdom" too as it has been hijacked by the religionists, but there's certainly more than just the computational power of the mind. I call it the software of our mind and it is the paths by which we think.
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