08
Sep
2023
Organized ignorance creates epistemic gaps that allow people to protect themselves from the consequences of knowing the truth.
So we've got epistemic lacunae, right? So there are gaps that have been created, these gaps in how we know things. If people aren't familiar, lacunae just refers to gaps. And epistemology is the study of how we know things, right? So organized ignorance of this kind, even just pretending not to know stuff, is allowing for a space where people leave a gap in their knowledge. And that's a comforting space into which they can withdraw and protect themselves from the obvious consequences of knowing that this is true.