Welcome to age of the will to ignorance
© Christophe Delory Arts & Culture Welcome to age of the will to ignorance Political scientist, historian examines why so many embrace ‘magical thinking that crowds out common sense and expertise’ in new book February 20, 2025 long read Excerpted from “Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know” by Mark Lilla, M.P.P ’80, Ph.D. 1990, which was published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The faintest of all human passions is the love of truth.— A. E. Housman There was a man who lived in a cave. He did not know that’s where he lived, because his legs had been chained to the ground and his head was enveloped by a device that projected a virtual life not his own. One day an unknown woman removed the device and unlocked the chains, and he saw for the first time where he and many others actually were. He was shattered. The woman comforted him as best she...