¶ Ignorance (1)
Index Entry
Ignorance:
"… Man’s participation in the moderate success of his complex relationship to Universe has of necessity been accomplished by a variety of indirectly-arrived-at advantages, only ignorantly induced, and conversely reciprocal to the original acts of ignorance. He backs into his future.
"Ignorance hither-and-yons impulsively until brought up short at unpredictable periods by unpredictable push-pull limits. It is slowly becoming evidenced that, though man had been ignorant of the factors governing his successful survival as a species, the reciprocal positive functions governing the periodic alternations which net a successfully steered course may be adduced, only, however, by proper documentation and realistic inversion of the negative evaluations and predilections of ignorance.
"Vanity and superstition constitute the plus and minus springs of ignorance, the expansive and contractive ‘raison d’etre’ of boast and fear. The boasts and fears of ignorance may be maintained spontaneously only when there is no obviously periodic contradiction in physical experience.
TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.230, May’49
