I was very pleased to see essayist Tim Kreider's op-ed piece, "In Praise of Not Knowing," in the Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/opinion/19Kreider.html?_r=1 And a bit surprised at the synchronicity, after my post just last week (see directly below) about the very same phenomenon. It's obviously a markedly different piece, but still manages to echo some of my sentiments about this topic.
Interesting how we both link to childhood, innocence v. experience, children and wonder.
I really enjoyed his conclusion:
"Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill. Because it turns out that the most important things in this life — why the universe is here instead of not, what happens to us when we die, how the people we love really feel about us — are things we’re never going to know."
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19 June 2011
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