I Always Wanted to Know

I'd like to watch this but my data is limited again. I did read up about willful blindness quickly though. Interesting...know what it brought to mind ? Certain leaders (often the religious fanatics) who claim innocence when their followers do extreme things. Even though they know very well that what they teach did cause the person to do what they did.

It also reminds me of certain situations in modern warfare where the country making war keeps the civilian death toll hidden by not allowing the mainstream media to report on it properly. This is done to keep the support for that war ongoing. If people knew that their tax money was used to kill so many innocent civilians then they might not be so keen on said war. If this is exposed, like it has been, then that government will claim that they didn't know. Willful blindness I think. If that kind of defense doesn't work in court for a person transporting drugs then it shouldn't work for a government either because a collective government, which is includes intelligence gathering organizations, is far more intelligent than your average drug mule.

What kind of examples were used in this video ?

we learn how not to rock the boat
that willful blindness is better than what will follow if you do make a ripple in the pond
we don't want to deal with consequences
we let larger groups influence us
being brave
moral courage when surrounded by adversity

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
― Rudyard Kipling

"Willful blindness" is such a dangerous thing on so many levels!😔It's great this woman kept speaking out...how brave of her. ⭐Thanks for sharing this video, I hope more watch it.