Ignorance is bliss

"Ignorance is bliss."

I would have to disagree. 

Wow. Breathe. 

I don't understand how people can be happy living in ignorance. How can you stand not knowing, how can you just listen to something some one says and accept it as truth. What happened to looking, and finding things out for yourself? Testing waters, making mistakes, learning. Ignorant people make me sick, not people who are ignorant in the fact that they don't know yet, but the people who don't want to know. The people who purposely turn a blind eye because they can't handle thinking past elementary learning, or aren't open minded enough to realize there is a world outside their little bubble. What is up with that? 

What in the world is holding you back? Are you, for lack of a better word, stupid? Do you like being stupid? There are some people who are afraid to go out into the waters of thought and explore, for fear that they will fall off the edge. Those people I just want to grab by the shoulders and scream,

The world is round!

Some people are unteachable, nothing you can say will steer them off their path. They know extreme basics and anything new is instantly rejected. I know this sounds very extreme but I know many people like this, Hell bent in their own ways. My Uncle being one of them. Now, I would not jump on a family member like this usually, but when one tells me they will not allow their daughter to study biology in school because "evolution does not exist" I feel like I am allowed to call them stupid. I'm sorry sir, but evolution is happening, call it a "theory" all you want but until you have a better explanation then "Adam and Eve 'poofed' here", I'm with Darwin on this one.  

Also people who will sit and correct me, tell me I am wrong, then when I ask why they have no explanation. Well then, how exactly do you know I am wrong then? I am not opposed to learning. If you know I am wrong and can back up your reasoning I will listen. I guess this comes from growing up with a brainiac for a father. My dad is a genius. Any question I had when I was younger, BAM, answer. And not just an answer, facts, places I could go to learn for myself, things I could research. Heck with a couple PhD's to his name I could just about research him. This made me the person I am today. A person thirsty for knowlage, who won't settle with not knowing and can't understand how other people can. 

I was the little girl who wanted to be a paleontologist, I would sit with my dad and listen to him read text books on this stuff, then I wanted to be a geneticist, but not just a geneticist, a molecular geneticist like my dad, then on to a psychologist, then a million other things and I am still wrapped up in the world of science, focusing on Neuroscience. I couldn't even dream of being half of these things without wanting to know. Without abandoning self imposed ignorance. 

Just think of how much this world could accomplish if we just thought.

Think about that.