1.                      Ignorance as bliss?

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3. In another blog, I had been in the process of trying to figure out why ignorance is bliss. Well, it is. The way I see it, ignorance is like a sweet aroma people like, but they aren't aware of the side  effects. Because to them, if it feels good, then it must be good. Protecting yourself from the truths of the world is considerably... fine. But too much of it results in a risk of death, right? You don't know what can harm you, and you don't know how to keep yourself from being harmed. So when the time comes that you learn something you haven't been trained to handle, you just go insane. 

I mean, it's understandable if people wish to avoid pain. Like, the existential kind of pain, or the pains in life like depression and envy... but I wish to expose myself to it. 

Someone commented on my blog about the difference between my perspective of ignorance and someone else's. 

                                                             7/12/2025

Do you notice how when we're born, things like breathing, thinking and being curious was not much of a conscious thing? we just... do it. That's why we don't remember a lot of things that happened at the ripe age of 1 - 5. When we are actually aware of what we are doing, the way we feel gets more intense. breathing and taking care of ourselves never became something we knew we were doing, it was just... natural. and the more we keep doing it, the harder it becomes. 

if we were to be born, already conscious like the average teen/adult, then things like self care and constantly having to breathe every 7 seconds would stress us out and be hard. because it is something we are not used to, we panic and this prolonged feeling of helplessness can kill us

We are not used to the pains of life because it all just happens later on. It doesn't just become a natural feature that we learn to let it be in the background of the things around us, which is why it is hard to do things that feel "natural" to us. In a way, you do have to get used to it, but also know how to work with it. When we let helplessness get in the way of growth and adaptation, it can lead to our deaths.

I thought I had randomly come up in church. a solution? There are two ways.

                                            “To succeed is to work hard.”

Well, like hobbies, they come new to us at first. and because of a loss of motivation and consistency, we can easily lose interest when it doesn't become something we need, like breathing and thinking. If there was a way to say that we could just repress some consciousness that intensifies the thoughts and feelings of "i don't want to do this"/"this is so hard" into "i NEED to do this"... would we be able to complete things more naturally and quickly?

If we constantly put ourselves in a mindset that we just... have to do something every day, to the point where it becomes natural, we will be able to do it better than before. but there is also a flaw to this, that if we get used to it it eventually does get... boring,, to the point we don't even take the time to appreciate it. that is until we actually reflect on it, like meditation

if we didn't think about the pains that came with something that is semi-optional(school, mental illness, socialization), perhaps we could proceed without any complaints <- Repression

Laozi(老子) was a man who also believed that ignorance is bliss, but there is a difference between the way he tries to clear out intelligence from getting us hurt. Instead of forcing things to be automatic, he would rather just "go with the flow" and instead of pressuring people to try and beat this barrier that held us from trying to know the truth, we should just let go and let things flow naturally. (it reminds me of the perceiving function in mbti, a "wing it" and "don't push yourself" thinking)


“Close your eyes to rare and desirable things (such as status or wealth), and you’ll reduce desire. Stop studying, reduce knowledge, and you’ll avoid the restlessness or arrogance that arises from excessive thought. Be content with what you have, and eventually you will reach wu wei.”

This is similar to Buddhism, right? Letting go of desires to achieve inner peace. The perspective of over evolving knowledge being as an optional factor, something you don't have to do. You just have to be content with your place in the universe. I admire this kind of perspective, but sometimes I'd rather do work first before allowing myself to rest. If i'm content with my place in the universe without achieving anything great, I wouldn't know if I really deserve that rest.

              Intelligence as a flaw?

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2. I don't think intelligence itself is a flaw. even as it brings pain pain brings growth and without it, everything would be dull and everything would stay the same.

   
   

The mind is so self indulgent to comforts and a lack of pleasure because of a natural response to repress, ignore, or avoid pain. it's the first thing we've learned to do as a newborn. And because we were born with feelings before awareness, especially because we become "conscious" later on in life, we tend to respond with what we're used to: emotions. 

But when the brain cannot come to terms that we have to face it, it starts to struggle. To be exposed to something we do not like doing, something we were taught to avoid. An overload of information and pain it has not been able to protect itself to becomes an alarm to our mental state. Intelligence was never supposed to be a flaw. It has it’s own bad and good sides, but it is mainly a gift. The reason why our own self awareness tends to loop us in a state of existential dread is because we tend to set limits, and not bother to push them

1.   Over evolving consciousness can lead to madness only if the mind is too weak to handle it or comprehend the information. In this generation, nobody  wants to exactly train their mind to handle information beyond their capacity because ignorance is peoples’ greatest coping mechanism. Pain is meant to get you out of your comfort zone and push your capacity of the amount of pain you can handle, but everyone’s at a giant pause because people stopped thinking rationally. I think this generation of life can be best described as sloth.

1. and so people point at intelligence and say, “it’s evil! a double edged sword! but i think it is a factor you can use to your advantage
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2.  Something I used to see is that the "world would be better without pain/death". But there's no point to living if you cant die, because you’ve gotten what you want. when humanity gets what it wants there is no room for materialistic change. The mind stays stagnant because stimulating activities suddenly gain no purpose because as life continues, every activity has been mastered there's no fear for death anymore, no fear of pain, and no desire for creation because eventually humanity gets used to a constant cycle of comforts and getting what they want so the mind stops responding emotionally to anything.
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4. in that world mystery is the greatest scarcity, whereas everything is discovered and tested out and there’s nothing to look for or be curious about anymore. so a world without pain would remain stagnant. 
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