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thewoodenaisle  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ignorance is a mold that looks like a fire.

    I would like to ask, since we seem to disagree and I would like to give you an opportunity to express what you feel which mk's anology doesn't, what you think would be an appropriate analogy for ignorance.

Meh, just your typical boring "ignorance is a fog/darkness and knowledge is the light that shines through the fog/illuminates the darkness" analogy. I suppose I should credit mk for at least coming up with an original analogy.

    I would like to not believe that ignorance is our natural state because I would like to believe that we as humans are not born hating each other. The ignorance being addressed here is not, I think, just simple lack of education. I think what mk is indirectly referencing is honestly more learned laziness or encouraged perceptions of "inherent difference." But I would like to hear what you think.

I guess I don't know what to think if mk is indirectly referencing something that I'm not aware of, and I don't want to put words in his mouth.





lil  ·  3152 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Meh, just your typical boring "ignorance is a fog/darkness and knowledge is the light that shines through the fog/illuminates the darkness" analogy.
Providing the fog/darkness is willing to let the light in. I need a metaphor for ignorance in which the darkness is active not passive and light not as powerful as we wish it was.

mk's moldy ignorance that looks like fire has some of that quality.

_refugee_