Ignorance is Not Bliss

In the film The Matrix, the character Cypher is dining with the character Agent Smith in preparation to betraying his fellow free individuals, which I think is quite similar to the way many individual Americans betray their fellow free Americans in the secrecy of the allegedly democratic voting booth.  As Cypher dines with Agent Smith, he states the following.

You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?
[Takes a bite of steak]
Ignorance is bliss.

I thought of this scene in The Matrix after reading a piece by David Z at the blog No Third Solution titled Belief in Government Means Ignoring the Evidence wherein David considers the reluctance of many individuals to consider just how free life could be without the State, because of individual ignorance of how life could be lived without the State.

The State, and the professional jobholders who make up the state, fervently desire that American individuals will believe that the State is “juicy and delicious,” that The State is the only means for individuals to live.  The State constantly force feeds individual Americans this message of the state as savior (compounding the ignorance), in pre-school, grade school, junior high, high school, college and daily to all individuals through the mainstream media.

Ignorance of the ability to live without the State, which creates fear in individuals, can be overcome, but only individual by individual destruction of ignorance.  Ignorance is not bliss.

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