I use ProtonMail, and I was thinking, “Damn, it’s spectacular not being tracked… but hold on a minute. Perhaps less than gmail, but still at all. And what about browser fingerprinting, and cookies, and even fonts!” I ended up in that feedback loop we all end up in. Perhaps ignorance is bliss? What is something you (might) wish you were ignorant of?

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      I don’t wish for ignorance, but sometimes I do watch wild creatures and think, “What a life. Find food, find shelter, find partner, lay eggs/babies. Pure biology in control.” Some deep part of me is massively jealous that I can’t give in to what my ancient genes want me to do. Being able to fulfill my basic needs is subject to the whims of capitalism.

      Though not having to tolerate parasites and disease without medicine, not having to die right after mating, and having access to modern air conditioning are pretty strong perks of being a human.

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        I definitely see your thinking. But for me the ability to understand complex ideas such as society and language is way to big of a trade off to be worth becoming any other animal.

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    Ignorance is bliss until it isn’t. At which point you’ll be completely unprepared to deal with the problems you’ve been pretending don’t exist.

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    There’s no perfect privacy. Just understanding your threat level. Minimizing the surface area of data collected on you is always a good thing. Just gotta discover what points matter the most to you.

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    It was never my wish but I lived my life outside of the media and ended up there naturally. It’s really quite blissful.

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    Many things at many times, but never about my personal life and thoughts, and that of my immediate circle. It’s things like why Kissinger was infamous or what Belgium was doing in Congo some years ago, and how it seems at times that I “swim in the sea of the unconscious” (from Persona 4’s OP, wonderful game!) and I can’t seem to find any solution to it besides waking people up one by one and the destiny of the world lies on people who know what Labubu is but don’t know why they do the things they do because they’re consumerist, hedonistic, unthinking automatons (to certain degrees, of course, but the Western ideological vacuum leaves people to default into it. And God has been dead there since at least Nietzsche’s days)…

    But then I take a deep breath and remember I too will die in due time and whatever responsibility I feel for this world will die with me. And also, I’m just one man. 🤷

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    I don’t wish for ignorance, just optimism. Like I worry about things but I just like to reach out to you guys and see you reaches back