#willfulignorance — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117034091899827324
#Fascism is flourishing.
Sadly.
And yes, state-sponsored domestic terrorism is here and now.
#concentrationcamps
#Othering
#Jingoism
#Racism
#WillfulIgnorance
Late stage #Capitalism -
RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117034091899827324
#Fascism is flourishing.
Sadly.
And yes, state-sponsored domestic terrorism is here and now.
#concentrationcamps
#Othering
#Jingoism
#Racism
#WillfulIgnorance
Late stage #Capitalism -
RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117034091899827324
#Fascism is flourishing.
Sadly.
And yes, state-sponsored domestic terrorism is here and now.
#concentrationcamps
#Othering
#Jingoism
#Racism
#WillfulIgnorance
Late stage #Capitalism -
RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117034091899827324
#Fascism is flourishing.
Sadly.
And yes, state-sponsored domestic terrorism is here and now.
#concentrationcamps
#Othering
#Jingoism
#Racism
#WillfulIgnorance
Late stage #Capitalism -
RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117034091899827324
#Fascism is flourishing.
Sadly.
And yes, state-sponsored domestic terrorism is here and now.
#concentrationcamps
#Othering
#Jingoism
#Racism
#WillfulIgnorance
Late stage #Capitalism -
What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.
[Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.]Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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"Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a resurgence of "far left political terrorism," according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response."
The Trump Administration chooses to ignore the danger from violent right-wing extremists and White identity terrorists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rubio-convene-meeting-far-left-080025270.html
#TrumpAdministration = #WillfulIgnorance. #politics #NationalSecurity -
"Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a resurgence of "far left political terrorism," according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response."
The Trump Administration chooses to ignore the danger from violent right-wing extremists and White identity terrorists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rubio-convene-meeting-far-left-080025270.html
#TrumpAdministration = #WillfulIgnorance. #politics #NationalSecurity -
"Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a resurgence of "far left political terrorism," according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response."
The Trump Administration chooses to ignore the danger from violent right-wing extremists and White identity terrorists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rubio-convene-meeting-far-left-080025270.html
#TrumpAdministration = #WillfulIgnorance. #politics #NationalSecurity -
"Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a resurgence of "far left political terrorism," according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response."
The Trump Administration chooses to ignore the danger from violent right-wing extremists and White identity terrorists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rubio-convene-meeting-far-left-080025270.html
#TrumpAdministration = #WillfulIgnorance. #politics #NationalSecurity -
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance
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“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science -
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82789…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #antiintellectualism #booklearning #books #dolt #dunce #education #ignorance #knowledge #learning #willfulignorance
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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"No point learning how to do x because AI can do it for me faster, why waste my time?" - is a really frustrating thing to hear when trying to teach people. Even if you want to use these "tools" you will use them better if you know what you are doing. Knowing how to use a coping saw means you are better at using a jigsaw or scrollsaw.
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Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
Elevated levels of lead in childrens' blood from mining? We'd rather not know
NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/nsw-health-children-blood-lead-levels-test-machine-inaccurate-resultsEnvironment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/
#mining #contamination #children #BrainDevelopment #lead #WillfulIgnorance #NSW #NegativeExternalities #EPA #harm -
A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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https://educatedkanak.liberta.vip/why-did-you-come-to-germany-on-complicity-and-willful-ignorance/
Many migrants know this question: “Why did you come to Germany?” I write about why it’s rarely as innocent as it sounds. We often talk about migration as if it were just a personal decision — ignoring wars, repression, the arms trade, and Europe’s part in all of it. I try to unpack what it means to be asked such a personal question in that larger context.
#ImmigrationNarratives #WillfulIgnorance #Curiosity #Germany #Immigration
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https://educatedkanak.liberta.vip/why-did-you-come-to-germany-on-complicity-and-willful-ignorance/
Many migrants know this question: “Why did you come to Germany?” I write about why it’s rarely as innocent as it sounds. We often talk about migration as if it were just a personal decision — ignoring wars, repression, the arms trade, and Europe’s part in all of it. I try to unpack what it means to be asked such a personal question in that larger context.
#ImmigrationNarratives #WillfulIgnorance #Curiosity #Germany
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https://educatedkanak.liberta.vip/why-did-you-come-to-germany-on-complicity-and-willful-ignorance/
Many migrants know this question: “Why did you come to Germany?” I write about why it’s rarely as innocent as it sounds. We often talk about migration as if it were just a personal decision — ignoring wars, repression, the arms trade, and Europe’s part in all of it. I try to unpack what it means to be asked such a personal question in that larger context.
#ImmigrationNarratives #WillfulIgnorance #Curiosity #Germany #Immigration
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. […] “But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #ignorance #pertinence #science #sherlockholmes #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BOOK-LEARNING, n. The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impenitent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Book-learning,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-05-14)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/80990…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #derision #sourgrapes #dolt #education #ignorance #knowledge #school #willfulignorance
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Why the Hell are Americans surprised that their regime officials who already repeatedly broke laws, including rigging and stealing elections, are now breaking laws (still)?
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Why the Hell are Americans surprised that their regime officials who already repeatedly broke laws, including rigging and stealing elections, are now breaking laws (still)?
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Why the Hell are Americans surprised that their regime officials who already repeatedly broke laws, including rigging and stealing elections, are now breaking laws (still)?
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Why the Hell are Americans surprised that their regime officials who already repeatedly broke laws, including rigging and stealing elections, are now breaking laws (still)?