What do you call a person who chooses to be ignorant on somethings but not others?
What do you call a person who chooses to be ignorant on somethings but not others?
Like someone might follow local weather and local news, but nothing global.
Normal.
In fact, I don't think there's a single person on the entire planet who doesn't make that exact choice, with the only differences between individuals being which things go in which categories. And, I guess, how aware they are of the fact that that's what they do.
I agree, but when they are making that choice, what's a term that describes that?
Willful ignorance
Human?
Would you say I "choose to be ignorant about" Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Vietnam etc? Or maybe those places don't pertain to my interests/needs?
A normal person lmao
I think I'd need more context here. I want to say willfully ignorant.
However, I'm also someone who keeps up to date on local things, and casually keeps up to date on world stuff. I am in the know enough to be a well informed voter - but I also don't want to keep track of the daily death count in Ukraine or in Gaza or else I'd turn into a puddle of anxiety and not be able to leave my house. So I pick and choose what I'm going to be vocal on. I had to go to therapy to learn that I don't need to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders, so if that's your friend then I'd say it's a good reason.
Willfully ignorant might be it, I was thinking there might be a more defined term for it.
Define ignorance, I guess. I feel like nonparticipation isn't necessarily ignorance.
I guess, innocence in the context of the question, I mean if a person just decides to learn about, listen to, goes out of their way to avoid learning about a thing but not others.
Such as avoiding global news and sticking with just local news.
Such as avoiding global news and sticking with just local news.
Sounds like they understand Circles of Influence and are tuning their circle of concern to match.
I avoid local news and only keep up on global news. Does that make me based?
"Not interested"
Since I do that myself, I call them a gentle soul who's been abraded to near-transparency by the deluge of negativity in world news.
But if I wasn't being nice, I'd call them blinkered.
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Disengaged.
This might be entirely reasonable, depending on circumstance.
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/
Belangia helpfully adds: “A-gnoia means literally ‘not-knowing’; a-mathia means literally ‘not-learning.’ In addition to the type of amathia that is an inability to learn, there is another form that is an unwillingness to learn. … Robert Musii in an essay called On Stupidity, distinguished between two forms of stupidity, one he called ‘an honorable kind’ due to a lack of natural ability and another, much more sinister kind, that he called ‘intelligent stupidity.'”
Busy. Maybe it's a time constraint and not willful ignorance as others are suggesting.
It depends on in what way. There might be reasons.
selective perception?
somethings
Like spelling? :)
"Willfully Ignorant"
intentional ignorance is obliviousness
American.
A gobshite.