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Beware: Ignorance

Quote on ignorance from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Talents."

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows. (Above from Chapter 12 of “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia E. Butler) This passage comes to mind as I see serious people asking …

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