Does anyone else feel like the more they learn about fucked up history and current events the more we have to worry about? The older I get, and as I learn about history, the more things I have to think about that keep me up at night. Maybe ignorance is bliss after all?

EDIT: I should have mentioned originally that I’m a person that is hyper vigilant (on the spectrum) and can’t not notice things. I notice every little detail of everything I see. Why is the guy at the grocery store blocking the entire aisle and is completely oblivious that people can’t get by? Why did that person turn without a turn signal? I notice people’s body language. I meticulously pick apart things that people say and extract meaning that I’m sure they never intended. I originally thought it was OCD, but I don’t have any of those traditional trappings. I wish I could just turn it off, as it’s exhausting.

This essentially sums up how I go through my day. I wish I could not know/notice things: https://youtu.be/dmbtt3iGXzg

  • iusemybrain@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Hmm, never imagined myself being against that claim.

    Some people say ignorance is bliss, I would say it isn’t. For example, by learning engineering it made me loose my jewish faith… and I’m not complaining against it.

    what’s worse then knowing everything, being manipulated. for the first 18 years of my life, I’ve been manipulated to believe in something I never understood why. it was my hell.

    So yea I’ll take learning analysis, probability, ODEs, fourier series/transforms, any motherfucking day over being manipulated.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      For example, by learning engineering it made me loose my jewish faith…

      The Conservatives are right to worry about University. I mean faith leaders expect to loose biology majors, but when engineers are getting de-converted you’ve got a serious problem.

      • boaratio@lemmy.worldOP
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        4 hours ago

        One of my best friends dad once told me that going to college makes you liberal. He’s a crazy conservative, but I can’t say he’s wrong. Knowing more helps you realize how the world actually works and information your decisions based on grounded logic, but at the same time conservative vs liberal is an interesting take on college. Id phrase it more as “sane vs insane.”