Ignorance means to ignore, to not notice, to fail to observe or to fail to acquire knowledge when possible. The implication is that the ability to learn is present but that learning does not happen. Ignorant is the result of ignorance.
The following saying amusingly differentiates between a specialist and a generalist. A specialist knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. A generalist knows less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything. The point is that it is not possible to know everything. Some things must be ignored in order to better focus on what is important.
Government cannot know everything about everything. Government will be ignorant of something. The supposition here is that government must not ignore data, facts and truths that are important to the betterment of government.
It is a further supposition or premise that government must know about law, principles of law, justice, democracy, constitutional rule, the rights of man, education, taxation, police forces, the military, war, education, management, happiness, and homo sapiens.
If a government ignores any data, truths or facts relating to governance, then they are ignorant. Ignorance could also result from not actively seeking facts. Ignorance could result from not recording the facts of investigations. Ignorance could result from, not acting on the recorded investigatory data. Knowledge of the principles and axioms of good government certainly should not be ignored.
An ignorant government wouldn’t know that they didn’t have all the data they needed. An ignorant government wouldn’t interview and record data from victims of arrest, victims of incarceration, victims of civil trials, victims of police brutality, victims of unjust taxation, victims of government perturbations, victims of government prejudice, victims of government outsourcing, or victims of government wars. An ignorant government wouldn’t have books of facts about why they started a war, what the plans were for the war and what went wrong. They would not have books by experts critiquing the war. They would not have books tying governing principles, agreed on by two thirds of congress and the senate, which would give the reasons for starting and conducting all wars.
Any government that does not have and will not get, record, disseminate and discuss all facts, data, and truths relevant to governance is ignorant.
A totally ignorant government will not know what their governing problems are. Consequently, they will naively think their government the greatest in the world.
To quote our leader: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
The plans of other democratic and republican candidates – as revealed on their web sites – are too glib for any serious comment.