How to Live
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How to Live
Person
Merlin Mann
Thought Technologies
Vices
Flaunting Ignorance
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Children
"... a society where people are uncomfortable with saying 'I don't know.' ..."
"... the Peace and Safety of a New Dark Age."
"... there are things we don't know and it's okay not to know ..."
"As regards miracles..."
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." — /u/angela_davis
"On a Cult of Ignorance"
"On the Immortality of Ignorance"
"You're never smarter for not knowing something."
“As with grammar, spelling, and usage, readers won’t detect the difference between a principled departure from convention and willful ignorance.”
“Be cautious about the motivation of the one who provides information ... Our personal decisions should be based on information that are free from selfish motivations.”
“Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.”
“Not ignorance per se…”
A Cult of Ignorance
Miracles
Pareidolia
Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena
Jumps
"We Don't Know"
Anti-Intellectualism
Argument from ignorance
Faith = Vice (Delusion)
God, Boxed-In
Knowledge
Thought-stopping Cliches
Tribalism