I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.

Ruth Ozeki
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In the book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost by David Foster Wallace, he talks about how we cannot survive on knowledge and we must first adapt to the unknown. If we adapt to new ideas and people, we can adapt to new situations and challenges. We must first adapt to the known and then adapt to the unknown. To do so takes a great deal of courage and courage requires fearlessness. This quote is an example of how we must adapt to what is unknown in order for us to be able to function as a society.

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