Meta-ignorance

Watching America’s Funniest Home Video, I wonder how humanity has survived. The things we do, unaware of the consequences, an action inevitably, resulting in a painful pratfall that totally disregards physics, biomechanics, and, most importantly, gravity.

We are intellectually ignorant.

To be clear, we are all intelligent, as are babies.

We are all, to a lesser or greater extent, ignorant.

First, let’s define ignorance, simply stated the lack of knowledge.

The source of knowledge is not: I feel, I think, I read on the Internet; the politician told me that all Americans know….

My source, America’s Funniest Home Video.