There’s that ‘bliss’ reference and the “what you don’t know” presumption.  Personally, I subscribe to the notion that probably has not made it into Bartlett’s yet, that, “ignorance is, well, just ignorant.”

In a reverse anthropomorphic sense, we have become a flock of head-in-the-sand ratites choosing to remain blissfully ignorant of stark reality, yet eager to take a breather for nonsense and misinformation.  We continue to conduct military operations against faceless enemies for unspecific provocation and indeterminate goals.  We paid little heed as greedy power pushers drove the planet to the brink of financial ruin and yet we continue, (in the newly depleted post non-depression era), to worship at the Shrine of the Wavering DOW, (Cool-Aid© anyone?).  We bellowed for over 100 days against the perpetrators of the worst environmental corporate disaster in history, yet we can’t wait to restart the process, the only end to which is future disaster.  We, and more sickeningly the USDA, have closed our eyes to the evolution of factory farming that brutalizes, (physically and genetically), animals to bring food to our tables and then, (in cahoots with the EPA), brutalizes the environment with the unchecked, globally-warming bi-products of the process.  We, (and by ‘we’ I mean, on average, the 16% of the voters among us), have allowed our politics to become a circus of accusations, innuendo and blatant lies, mostly about the character of the players at the expense of worthwhile policy.

Oh, fuck it!  It’s hard to care about such things when you’ve got sand in your eyes.