“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Yes, from a man with integrity, morality, the best. We all want to be right, but we need to own up when we’re wrong, or we can never be right. Ignorance is defending ourselves, our point of view when it is challenged, through evidence or through someone challenging us.

In society, it's a defence that has become common place, calling any evidence that calls out views wrong, ‘fake news.’ Donald Trump was big on ‘fake news.’ It just means the person putting out the news is putting out his own version of news according to his beliefs, without evidence.

Ignorance has become a choice, rather than being misinformed, or through innocence. We live in a world where beliefs are based on feeling as opposed to evidence, which is not only harmful, but also dangerous, unless you’re speaking from the gut, which is a conversation with the universe and that works.

We need to be open-mind on our learning and thinking. When anyone resists learning, there is nothing that can be done, until they decide they want to stop resisting, and decide to change. The sad realty is they wouldn’t agree. But we can’t know everything, instead we can look to learn and prep-up on what we don’t know, or be open to the fact that as we live, we learn something new every day.

It is important to take a look at our beliefs objectively, in the whole. if they then don’t make sense, we should perhaps think about why and do our part to reduce ignorance. If we all did that, just imagine how much better the world would be. (Source: https://inspiritedminds.org.uk)