I don’t like anyone being called “ignorant”. The “correct” word or phrase would be, ‘those who see things differently’.
I agree with this quote in that we should speak our minds, be ourselves, and be genuine in the artistic expression of who we are.
No one is ignorant. Some just haven’t experienced, witnessed, thought about certain things, or been taught as we have. Someone may have a different perception, a different definition of reality, but it doesn’t make them “ignorant” if they think differently from you and I. They’re just... different.
Truth. How would one define this word with anything other than what we can perceive with our senses, mainly of sight and hearing. A repeated pattern we note through our senses that brings us to a conclusion, like the scientific method. We have our hypothesis, then our experiments (experiences) which guides us to our conclusions. Our perception is limited though. Limited to the here and now, to historical records we weren’t there to witness, limited to our senses, our mind, agreed upon perceptions, limited to what we can note on this here earth. But the greater scope of objective reality, the one beyond our senses, beyond our perception, is truly unknown to us. As Socrates said the wisest thing and most humble thing to say is “I don’t know.”
Am I a relativist? Not really. I think we happen to have minds with similar ways of perception, with our senses, and we collectively come to very many of the same conclusions. All I’m saying is there are unknowns outside of the scope of my limited perception. I think it takes honest humility to not try to manipulate and force ourselves to think existence is all orchestrated on our behalf and for our benefit, but instead to say with honesty... there are things we can know, we can feel, things we can know beyond a reasonable doubt, and then there is that outside of our grasp; that we will always attempt to grasp and define, and yet is undefinable.
I agree that someone who sees things differently may erroneously be called ignorant by others with another point of view but that is just a misuse of the word. Everyone is ignorant. By definition ignorance is a lack of knowledge about a topic. We all are unaware of many things. It's just that ignorant as a word has come to have a negative connotation. Willfully ignorant a on the other hand, like flat Earth believers, is another story. That kind of thing drives me nuts!
Tbh actually I don't really agree on the ignorant part, cos I feel like a person can be ignorant if they chose to ignore certain facts like, if you inject urself with a needle that got aids you will get aids kinda thing, other than that like I agree with whatever u said about how we should be open enough to different percptions of life. But then again if u think about it some ignorant people is kinda the one that would call others ignorant, obviously not all cos some really don't know anything about a certain topic but then again like the aids and needle thing, they know it's a thing, but they chose to ignore it, or not go out to learn more about the dangers of it before doing it. Or maybe like ya said they see things differently and pray to virgin marry that they won't get it, idk don't wanna think too much into it lol
