Citizens of modern society have instant access to all the latest technology providing news and information that they can absorb to learn about virtually any subject they want. For instance, hundreds of thousands of books, web sites, and articles have been written about diet and health with so many facts and opinions spliced together almost as interchangable entities that people don’t even know what to think about them. They get frustrated and simply rely on what they “know” is true.
Perhaps this explains why obesity is still such a growing problem…LITERALLY! We are potentially the most educated culture in the history of mankind with all the information we have available to us. But what if the very principles and ideas that we have long held as facts were not as true as once thought.
That lays the groundwork for what I describe as “educated ignorance.”
Take livin’ la vida low-carb, for example. How is it viewed by society as a whole? It’s a fad diet that requires you to cut out all carbs, including shunning all fruits and vegetables, while loading up on fat and protein as a means for losing weight. Why do people belief such nonsense about low-carb diets? Because that’s what they have been taught through their sources of information such as newspaper columns, television broadcasts, and the Internet.
What about low-fat diets? Do they have such a negative perception as low-carb ones do? Not hardly. It’s considered healthy, balanced, and the best way to shed the pounds because eating fat makes you fat, everyone knows that. We all grew up believing this to be factually true, undisputed information, right? Unfortunately, many STILL believe this even now, despite very clear scientific evidence that has proven and will continue to show fat consumption is NOT why obesity persists.
It’s educated ignorance plain and simple. People have been taught what they want to hear, not what they need to hear for a wide variety of reasons. Protecting the economic interests of businesses that profit from the “fat is bad” message is one while refusing to admit the reality about fat is that it is not the great evil it has been made out to be. Why haven’t we changed our thinking about it already since the information is staring us right in the face?
Educated ignorance strikes again!
At the same time, the lack of concern for excessive sugar and refined carbohydrate consumption is just as much a part of an unhealthy lifestyle, too. But where’s the outrage? While trans fats and saturated fats are constantly hammered as universally “bad” for your health, that same distinction is never given to the damaging impact that these nasty carbs are playing on obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and worse. Why is sugar given so little attention while fat is of the devil?
This educated ignorance is precisely why I wanted to start this blog to begin truly educating people with information they can rely on that will not seek to keep you in the dark as you are learning about livin’ la vida low-carb. A lot of what you read here won’t show up in other outlets because there is an underlying message to keep people in the dark about some things while also spreading rumor and innuendo about other things. This can be incredibly frustrating to overcome the ignorance.
I don’t fault the general public for falling for these underhanded tactics to prevent them from knowing the truth, but it is their responsibility at some point to realize what they thought they “knew” has been wrong all along. Recognizing educated ignorance is the first step to being freed from the bondage of the lies and distortions that have dominated our lives. That is quickly followed by a dose of self-realization and self-enlightenment that comes from being exposed to the truth.
Without a doubt, this educated ignorance concept I have described is as real as the nose on your face. You can choose to reject it as conspiratorial with no basis whasoever to believe it. Or, instead you can decide to accept the idea that educated ignorance does exist and is holding back society in so many ways, including keep us fat by prohibiting the truth from being heard about what “healthy” living is really all about.
The more people acknowledge educated ignorance and do their part to overcome it, the faster the citizens of modern society will be able to take their blinders off and discover perhaps for the first time in their lives how to think, evaluate, and process information on their own without having it filtered through the many channels of censorship that now exists.
Release your mind to a whole new level of discovery. End educated ignorance NOW!
