There's an old saying that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
If learning about technology makes it insufficiently advanced then it is distinguishable from magic.
If magic is enchantment, the world (as concerns the technology) is no longer enchanted.
So yes: Ignorance is bliss.
Somewhat related, I've also noticed that people who don't go out of their way to inform themselves (eg: watch/read the news) in general seem happier. I also feel happier the less I give a damn about the stuff around me and the world.
> Somewhat related, I've also noticed that people who don't go out of their way to inform themselves (eg: watch/read the news) in general seem happier
Makes sense, most of whats shown on the news is just daily misery, without any relevance. My wife watches the 8 o clock news daily and most days the only news of any relevance is the weather report. The rest is just a barrage of ''in some country (usually a million miles away) some people got stabbed/a bus crashed/a terrorist attack happened/some environmental disaster/a company made a bazillion dollars profit/a politician did a thing''. Its all completely worthless to know, its forgotten five minutes afterwards and all it does is increase anger, fear and/or anxiety just a little bit more every day.
I'm probably just too inexperienced in the whole Computer Science world, but I become even more fascinated by modern computers and the people who worked on them, the more I learn.
I remember learning about the inner architecture of CPUs for the first time and being amazed at the genius of early computer architects.
Maybe this will change in the future, but right now I feel this enchantment more, the more I learn about technology.
> Somewhat related, I've also noticed that people who don't go out of their way to inform themselves (eg: watch/read the news) in general seem happier. I also feel happier the less I give a damn about the stuff around me and the world.
Yeah, that's the main selling point of never-never land.
If learning about technology makes it insufficiently advanced then it is distinguishable from magic.
If magic is enchantment, the world (as concerns the technology) is no longer enchanted.
So yes: Ignorance is bliss.
Somewhat related, I've also noticed that people who don't go out of their way to inform themselves (eg: watch/read the news) in general seem happier. I also feel happier the less I give a damn about the stuff around me and the world.
So yes: Ignorance is bliss.