I wonder if ignorance will ever be banished? I think ignorance may be going up due to internet and social media. Leads more to believe their opinion is valid and useful, when it may just be ignorant and ill-informed crowd following
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Likely not in the human dimension.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson said it once - as the limits of our knowledge expands, increasing the diameter of our realm of knowledge, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance expand. To me, that metaphor captures a lot of truth.
However, one would hope that as evolution proceeds, we’d still be getting smarter over time and embodying more wisdom than ignorance, regardless of whether it can be banished or not.
And yeah, social media hasn’t been helping in that people can regurgitate bullshit and many accept it blindly - but then again, it’s just a tool that can be used or abused, and responsibility has to come back on the people for how they use it...
unfortunately, competition drives ignorance as it corrupts education in favor of a meritocracy.
let go competition and you will resolve the issues