Ignorance Impedes Progress

I learned that ignorance impedes progress. This isn’t a narcissistic claim that I have all the answers, rather, I learned from this class that no one has the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions. There were times that I would listen to debate and be appalled by how little people knew about the topic and how the policy being discussed would affect the topic. Conversely, there were times were I knew so little that I didn’t even vote. Recognizing the ignorance of myself and that of others, this class became a game of perception. Rather than making logical arguments I watched classmates manipulate each other by positing false facts, developing superficial relationships, and using each other as means to an end. I can’t say I hadn’t noticed this before, not just in this class, but in life in general. We are incapable of knowing everything so we must find another way to make our uninformed decisions. To do this we delegate our uninformed decisions to someone we believe is informed. But who do we trust? At this point we would ideally appeal to some sort …show more content…
The first person I would recognize is senator Mahamat. Mahamat had a way of making you think he was on your side, and that he had good idea, but most of his ideas were stolen from other senators, I won’t name any names, but I know of multiple instances were Mahamat would present other people’s amendments before they could. This made other people perceive him as clever, and helped him get respect during sessions of the whole. The second person was senator Andrade. I was really impressed with senator Andrade, as a party leader she went out of her way to talk with people, and work with them. This was something anyone could have done, but even so, she developed a working relationship with everyone in our party, thus giving her authority when she needed