The Best Possible World
Ignorance and the State of Reality
Written by: Cody McLean
Course Instructor: Professor Dorter
Seminar Leader: John Law
Date of submission: October, 15, 2014
“Ignorance is bliss” is a statement overheard but not over spoken and the gravity of this statement is sometimes overlooked as it will become more apparent. The basis of our reality is perceptual, Man is born free but is chained to a false reality by his senses, and this reality is one of ignorance and susceptibility. Man is not evil in nature although his is alone, left to his senses of reality, seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting are all to mislead one from discovering the true reality. This truth will explain that reality can’t be good because …show more content…
Through these evils they created a harmonistic, orderly, and powerful city. Which consisted of a reality which was perceived as good and glorious yet in the eyes of truth was an evil reality. Far from truth and balanced through ignorance. This is a fine demonstration of the world to which man lives now. To feel as the best, highly intelligent, most politically and economically stable, full of pride and equality. While being separate from the reality as it truly exists worldly and collectively. As the human species begins to fall under the easier notion of ignorance rather than face reality as it were. It is evil and society has been manipulated to believe and trust in this ignorance as a means to survive as a basic individual instinct. This reality can be found in other countries which restrict knowledge and forbid different understanding of concepts that go against the norm. It is the environment to which humans have become accustom to which makes them ill and convert to its evils. The true reality is one which recognizes this manipulation and sees the evils for what they are, only through this understanding truth and justice can reality be purged of this form, to take a new form as a Good, and truthful …show more content…
Lies which in turn are the evils of reality. “Ignorance is bliss” because to the observers reality is blissful and good. Yet as shown it is evil merely masking itself in form and shadows much like the allegory of the cave. The perception of the experiencer is molded by senses, manipulated by the masses, and controlled by their own human instinct to survive. It has become an endless cycle of evil shadows and forms which force the good in reality out and reinforce the lies and trickery of the senses. This is why the basis of reality exists as evil, not because it is unachievable but because it has become so easy to be persuaded through ignorance and the senses to believe in what is a reality of evil to be a reality of good, and to accept this false reality rather than strive for a better one which faces the
Ignorance and the State of Reality
Written by: Cody McLean
Course Instructor: Professor Dorter
Seminar Leader: John Law
Date of submission: October, 15, 2014
“Ignorance is bliss” is a statement overheard but not over spoken and the gravity of this statement is sometimes overlooked as it will become more apparent. The basis of our reality is perceptual, Man is born free but is chained to a false reality by his senses, and this reality is one of ignorance and susceptibility. Man is not evil in nature although his is alone, left to his senses of reality, seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting are all to mislead one from discovering the true reality. This truth will explain that reality can’t be good because …show more content…
Through these evils they created a harmonistic, orderly, and powerful city. Which consisted of a reality which was perceived as good and glorious yet in the eyes of truth was an evil reality. Far from truth and balanced through ignorance. This is a fine demonstration of the world to which man lives now. To feel as the best, highly intelligent, most politically and economically stable, full of pride and equality. While being separate from the reality as it truly exists worldly and collectively. As the human species begins to fall under the easier notion of ignorance rather than face reality as it were. It is evil and society has been manipulated to believe and trust in this ignorance as a means to survive as a basic individual instinct. This reality can be found in other countries which restrict knowledge and forbid different understanding of concepts that go against the norm. It is the environment to which humans have become accustom to which makes them ill and convert to its evils. The true reality is one which recognizes this manipulation and sees the evils for what they are, only through this understanding truth and justice can reality be purged of this form, to take a new form as a Good, and truthful …show more content…
Lies which in turn are the evils of reality. “Ignorance is bliss” because to the observers reality is blissful and good. Yet as shown it is evil merely masking itself in form and shadows much like the allegory of the cave. The perception of the experiencer is molded by senses, manipulated by the masses, and controlled by their own human instinct to survive. It has become an endless cycle of evil shadows and forms which force the good in reality out and reinforce the lies and trickery of the senses. This is why the basis of reality exists as evil, not because it is unachievable but because it has become so easy to be persuaded through ignorance and the senses to believe in what is a reality of evil to be a reality of good, and to accept this false reality rather than strive for a better one which faces the