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Imagine a bunch of superstitious cavemen being shown Paladin on a t.v. or flashed on a cave wall. It would not take long until they invented a bunch of legends about the Gods from the show. They would invent music and chanting around the show. This is how we humans operate because most of use are too lazy to use our brains.
Willful Ignorance
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” Thomas A. Edison
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” Søren Kierkegaard
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” Benjamin Franklin
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” Abraham Lincoln
“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.” Brandon Sanderson
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” Isaac Asimov
“There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.” Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” P.J. O'Rourke
“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.” James A. Michener
