If you’re looking for a simple way to maintain ignorance, anger, and seething discontentment then I suggest you learn to hate learning.
Learning works against your efforts to stay outraged. It’s nearly impossible to be perpetually enraged when your mind is constantly being distracted with new knowledge. Critical thinking becomes your default response and there is NOTHING more lethal to your hysteria. So here’s a short list of steps to take toward hating learning.
- Be deeply resentful of others who know things.
- Call anyone who shares facts with you a ‘know-it-all.’
- Exclusively seek out information that already agrees with you and call it “doing your own research.”
- Treat curiosity as a character flaw and questions as acts of aggression.
- Dismiss expertise as elitism.
- Assume a posture of arrogance.
Humility puts you dangerously close to learning something. The moment you admit you might be wrong, you open the door to evidence, correction, and the terrifying possibility of growth. Arrogance closes that door, seals it, and posts an armed guard outside. It allows you to remain confidently incorrect without the nuisance of reflection. You can dismiss challenges as stupidity and disagreement as malice. Best of all, arrogance protects you from all the responsibilities that come with understanding.
When you hate to learn, you outsource your thinking to louder voices, simpler slogans, and angrier tribes. You let someone else tell you what to think and who to hate. Despising wisdom makes you wonderfully easy to manipulate. That’s not weakness, it’s efficiency! Ignorance isn’t the absence of independence; it’s dependence with a sleek rebrand that lets you feel bold, certain, and free while someone else does the thinking for you.
Social media can be a big help in keeping new information from seeping into your mind. The algorithms filter out anything challenging or uncomfortable and replace it with bite-sized outrage tailored precisely to your existing opinions. You don’t have to read whole posts. Just accept every headline as certified fact and respond with knee-jerk emotionalism. Then, assume any engagement is validation. Social media doesn’t just keep you uninformed; it keeps you confidently uninformed, which is the gold standard of modern ignorance.
Hating learning is the final safeguard of blissful ignorance. It spares you from nuance, self-examination, and the exhausting work of updating your beliefs. The world stays neatly divided into heroes and villains, your opinions remain unthreatened, and your confidence never has to earn its keep. Learning disrupts comfort, but ignorance preserves peace. So hate learning with discipline and conviction!
(Proverbs 1:28) Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof…
