it’s a lot really isn’t it, there’s lots you don’t want to know, maybe it’s much more than you want to know

the recession into recursive oblivion, you don’t want to know what you don’t want to know

is it fairly universally true, loosely, generalizing, of the species, across the species

surely nobody wants to know everything, that would be a mental disorder perhaps

so maybe you want to know enough, that sounds reasonable, functional

transition said:

it’s a lot really isn’t it, there’s lots you don’t want to know, maybe it’s much more than you want to know

the recession into recursive oblivion, you don’t want to know what you don’t want to know

is it fairly universally true, loosely, generalizing, of the species, across the species

surely nobody wants to know everything, that would be a mental disorder perhaps

so maybe you want to know enough, that sounds reasonable, functional

as has offten enough been said.

Enough is enough.

People only want see what they want to see

transition said:

it’s a lot really isn’t it, there’s lots you don’t want to know, maybe it’s much more than you want to know

the recession into recursive oblivion, you don’t want to know what you don’t want to know

is it fairly universally true, loosely, generalizing, of the species, across the species

surely nobody wants to know everything, that would be a mental disorder perhaps

so maybe you want to know enough, that sounds reasonable, functional

That’s just what I was saying to Mabel.

I don’t want to know what I don’t want to know.

Woodie said:

I don’t want to know what I don’t want to know.

That’s the known don’t want to knows then.

What about the unknown don’t want to knows?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Woodie said:

I don’t want to know what I don’t want to know.

That’s the known don’t want to knows then.

What about the unknown don’t want to knows?

I don’t want to know.

My goal for much of my life is to know everything …
… and nobody.

It’s an unattainable goal, but that’s what makes it interesting.

As Madame Curie said,
“it is important to be interested in things, not people”.

mollwollfumble said:

My goal for much of my life is to know everything …
… and nobody.

It’s an unattainable goal, but that’s what makes it interesting.

As Madame Curie said,
“it is important to be interested in things, not people”.

But people are part of everything, so if you want to know everything you need to know everybody.

Marie Curie got more out of things than she did people but if she’d met some people they may have asked why she glowed.

humor alert

consider the proposition you develop a working category for stuff you don’t want to know, has various subcategories of course, and there’s some study of the categories and their contents, additions, subtractions, relational analysis and sorting, whatever

it’s not a wild idea to develop a category, call it a working category

now consider the practical implications of such a category, that its existence contradicts the category, or categorization efforts

is it much different to, or could it be any worse than visiting your computer recycle bin?

I certainly don’t study what’s in the recycle bin, and anyway if I was in there too much it would stop being a bin, surely

what though if there was something important about the recycle bin, not in its contents necessarily but in that it was empty say, I emptied it, nothing there to recycle

who hasn’t relegated stuff to the recycle bin they didn’t want see again, then emptied the entire recycle bin to be sure

i’m wondering of that comparison how useful it is, maybe the human want not to know is incomparable

the way the orientation of mind, the force of structure to whatever end, objectives say, displaces other things, other possibilities

almost by definition conceptual categories are exclusionary, of course there are activities that might be denoted categories that work with and on, across categories

anyway i’m getting around to saying what you don’t want to know is a very powerful thing

it’s easy to think the force of attraction toward what you want to know is the powerful business, that does most of the work

but I have my doubts it does most of the work

what you don’t want to know is more secretive, devious is the word I have in mind, but more I mean soft devious, that it is functionally necessary, required, part of the heuristics of minds, its economy