QotD: Is Ignorance Bliss?

Do you believe that ignorance is bliss?

I'm a worrier. Basically, if I know about something coming up and it's potentially scary or could go wrong, I tend to worry about it. So in that sense, ignorance is bliss in that if I don't know about something I can't begin to construct scenarios where things will go wrong. And I know I'd be a happier person in the short term if I was ignorant of all the news swirling around these days about all the uncertainty everywhere.

But there's also a situation where ignorance is bad. Because then you get blindsided by something you otherwise should have known about and could have changed/prevented/done something about. Continuing my previous example, as much as I'd like to stop paying attention to the news, it's best that I don't shut it out completley or I'm going to miss something that's truly important.

So…yeah, My take on the old saying is that ignorance is bliss except when it isn't, which is usually always.

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