Why does the majority of humankind seem so content in their ignorance?

Question

Do they feel as if anything is missing?

Answer 1

Well, I would first argue that they only SEEM content. People are never happy. They always have too little or too much of something.

On the ignorance issue; it's just that a person doesn't have to know very much to successfully reproduce. We are mammals before anything else and our only reason for existing is to create little versions of ourselves.

Overcoming ignorance is expensive and time consuming. Smart, well informed, caring people reproduce less often and later than ignorant savages. Therefore the majority of the human race is ignorant savages. QED.

Or, in a more mathematical sense:

Knowledge = Power
Power = Responsibility
Responsibility = Trouble

Answer 2

Some philosophers would say that such people are not in tune with the immutable or inexorable force known as the logos, which is that immanent force of Stoicism and Heraclitus. Personally, I think most people reason that knowledge brings with it responsibility. It is often easier to be ignorant than be responsible for that which one knows to be true. Furthermore, the Bible even says that knowledge can mean vexation for the one possessing it. All the same, I believe that it is better to increase one's knowledge base with each passing day. At the end of the day, the wise and ignorant man both go to the same place at death.

Answer 3

You presume quite a lot, Z; IF i were one of Them i would say

that it is YOU who is likely to feel-something is missing!

Please excuse my directness, but whenever anyone talks of

"the majority of mankind", they can hardly know what they are

talking about- for,how can we know what this group of people

think? We cannot; although we can estimate; And big estimates

tend to make and even remake big mistakes.
And big mistakes

are not the best way to learn, for the individual Or the group.

Answer 4

It is more practical to purify existing knowledge through experience than acquire further knowledge that is not relevant to current experience.... majority of humankind is practical and hence does not seek knowledge for its own sake.

Answer 5

Many people don't know they're ignorant or they don't care. I suspect they don't feel that anything is missing in they're lives. Or maybe they're busy living a very active lifestyle & will outlive the rest of us.

Answer 6

Ignorance is bliss.

Enough said!

Answer 7

Maybe they're not really content.

Answer 8

Who says?? Takes one to know one.

Answer 9

I'm content, I have Jesus.