A New Sight For The Unsighted

Cognizant Ignorance: Managing Unknowns, Fallacies and Informational Distortions

Mi'kail Eli'yah
20 min readAug 15, 2020

From Incognizance To Cognizance

Possibilities are only limited by our own self-limiting ignorance. In our age of information, we do not lack awareness, but our ignorance persists in the sense that we still lack understanding, and the lack of will and willingness to change to obtain that awareness. Apathy is, therefore, self-administered ignorance.

Recognizing that both my positive and negative emotions may be dangerous if they are not controlled and guided to desirable ends, I will submit all my desires, aims and purposes to my faculties of reason, and I will be guided by it in giving expression to these.
— Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 — July 20, 1973), Re: Reason

It is not the solstice between God and man, but the inherent ignorance of the original sin that eclipses the mind from seeing the Truth. What freedom are we celebrating when there is no freedom from ignorance, apathy and helplessness? — Ursa

Is it really just an accident, or just an ill-informed and ill-facilitated incident, from our own persistent wilful, self-sabotaging, and self-limiting ignorance lulling our hindsight from teaching our foresight? We could have gotten the next…

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