The Virtue of Ignorance

Seasonal humanitarian crises are a painful distraction. Some people will spend their time establishing equality and happiness for all conscious beings. It placates their sense of anxiety about the suffering of other people. Other people will focus on other things, because they are not predisposed to the same anxieties. We can argue about the morality of either tribe, but ultimately all tribes are only human. And humanity is a temporary affair. So my hope is that, in all their trade in anxieties, whether they favour empathy or ignorance, each party will succeed in fulfilling their own ambitions for existence. It is also an ambition to have no ambitions, but in order to achieve that, one has to be truly careless about existing. So in this season, I hope for more careless people.