So, this is a rant I put on facebook, but my friend thought it was really funny so I'm posting it up on here too :) Here goes...
ignorance is strength...okay, how does that work?! i found this quotation on some site and i don't really know how ignorance can possibly be strength!! i'm pretty ignorant and don't know about lots of things and that makes me feel just plain idiotic. strength in the essence is definitely not ignorance, if ignorance means idiocy. so where's the strength in ignorance?? hmph. might i be ignorant of the truth of this paradox? if so, does that give me the strength to defy the meaning of this paradox?
oh the woes of paradoxes... they confuzzle me and yet they make so much and so little sense. but alas that is the point of the paradox! if ignorance can be put in the thesaurus under 'strength', then that must mean they are closely related, but they aren't!! or maybe if we put an example into this paradoxical equation of ignorance = strength, then we might find the hidden meaning...
so if i didn't know someone was being mean to me... per se telling me i was an idiot using the infamous method of passive aggressive-ness, and i didn't get the hint, would i be ignorant and therefore brave in the presence of a potentially mean person? would i, perhaps, unnerve them by acting as if they hadn't said anything, because i didn't catch what they were trying to get across? would i throw off the balance of predator and prey because i didn't see this revelation? would it mean i had strength in a situation where i would else have had none??
but enough of these confuzzling paradoxical words and puzzled meanings! i'm sure that it will all make sense... in due time...
