Ignorance is Bliss

Ignorance is bliss, but knowlege is power. To whom is the knowledge powerful?

As we get older, in our lives we are exposed to moments where we find out something that is more complicated than it seems. I have been reading "Banana" by Dan Koeppel, and it has opened my eyes to the truth about where our food comes from and how it is made. For example, bananas, did you ever notice they dont have seeds>? Did you ever bother to ask yourself why?

It is because every banana is a clone of another banana. The bananas we eat today are not the same type of bananas that were eaten in this country 40 years ago. We are eating clone bananas. And the bananas we consume today are only able to reproduce by human hand, otherwise there would be no more bananas. These clone bananas are created from genes of other fruits and even fish.

I continued to read an article about the fruit drink Fuze, and the fact that we dont even think where all the ingredients for the drink comes from and instead we wonder about how many sugars and calories we consume from it show all of the ignorance in this country. To find out where the ingredeints come from the author of the article spent 7 hours of intense online research to find out where each ingredient comes from, and still had no positive answer as to where each ingredient came from.

We live in America, where we dont have to wonder where our food comes from but rather how much of it we eat, while we are supporting the countries that we do not want to support. The leaders and the economies of the people we fight against. We put farmers in our own country out of jobs because we dont bother to look at where our food comes from. A single item can have ingredients from all over the world and we ignore the fact and accept that it is food, and we need food to survive.

And what can we do about it? We can garden our own fruits and vegitables, grow our own wheat, make our own breads and pastas. We can buy from local farms, or from local grociers that buy from local farms. Does this make any impact at all? NO. Does it change anything in the long run? NO.

So if knowlege is power, then why does it happen, that the people who go through the trouble of finding the knowlege are so few? And to that, the people who have this knowlege have no power over the situation but rather are left with a feeling of guilt, disgust, hatred, helplessness, and uselessness while the people who are oblivious to all of this are rolling in cash or are comfortably eating whatever food they feel like regardless of where it came from or who needs it most?

Ignorance is bliss, because when we do have knowlege we dont know what to do with it, and it ends up destroying us. What do we do with knowlege? We try to spread it but it is never heard. If it is heard in the least, there arent enough people to do anything about it. The things i discussed in this one post are only a few points of a very important issue and of this important issue, it is only one of the bajillion other issues that need to be adressed.

We will just keep destroying ourselves because it is more comfortable and easier on our conciences to not know about all of the horrible things happening because of our ignorance. So the question is, be happy? or be right.