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I made a deal with myself a long time ago, my primary value:

I'd rather know than be happy.

Reality is cold and bleak. We have so many social constructs meant to obfuscate that fact. I wouldn't change my values, but they aren't a path to a shiny, happy life, and blissful ignorance values are among the biggest reasons our civilization's outlook is so bleak.

A CEO has no desire to see how those they laid off are doing months later, or the children they hurt polluting a water source, or their own current employee's subsistence living conditions despite the revenue they generate. They should have to see the pain they've caused to line their pockets, as should shareholders who applied pressure in willful ignorance for maximum profit(bliss), but ignorance is bliss.

Which is why, though alluring, the bliss of willful ignorance is a dangerous and antisocial value to live by.

So, you're saying I know something.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

- Isaac Newton

Simmer down Socrates, you took one graphic design class.

So you’re saying my anxiety is justified, when do I start feeling the bliss?

How do you know how much i don't know that i don't know?

This pie chart thinks way, way too highly of me.

Dont tell me what I don't know I don't know!

Not to scale.

Depends on what you take as "knowledge". The kind of "What's the name of person X in India" or the kind with understanding?

There's so many things I don't know.

Like cheese, you know.

This chart is the very first thing they show you at The Landmark Forum. They even tried to copyright it...

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.

— some asshole who was unfortunately also intelligent

Speak for yourself

The stuff I know slice should be microscopic in my case.

The stuff I know and stuff I know I don’t know slices might be a bit too big lol there’s sooooo much shit to not know in this incomprehensibly vast universe

Landmark Education?

The "stuff you know" slice should be "stuff you think you know," and "stuff you know" should be a tiny sliver.

In before someone tries to explain that they know everything and this chart is wrong for them in particular.

Is it possible there's an afterlife we just don't know about it?