...is bliss? That's how the saying goes. And there's definitely some truth to that statement. Sometimes we are better off not knowing. We shield our kids from certain "ways of the world" that are evil or destructive. It's pretty tough to argue with doing something like that.
Of course, ignorance can also be an excuse. We prefer to stay in the dark about certain truths. That way, when we fail to live up to those truths, we can play the "I didn't know" card. But this begs the question: Do we really not know?
We probably know more than we let on. There is something within us that tells us right from wrong. Deep down, we know a whole lot more. We just don't want to embrace it. We don't want to confront the fact that there are certain inescapable, universal truths out there. We avoid the confrontation because such a confrontation would require life evaluation, soul-searching, and even (gulp!) change on our part.
Maybe we should say ignorance is temporary bliss. If you haven't noticed, the Truth tends to come out. And once the Truth is out there and obvious to everyone, we can no longer claim ignorance. And if we haven't embraced that Truth, yet we now know about it, that means we have rejected it. Who knows what the consequences for such rejection might be?
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