Ignorance Is Not Quite Bliss · 3:44am Jan 9th, 2016
Some people say ignorance is bliss. They are wrong.
Some people say ignorance was bliss. They are also wrong, if only in strict definition.
Ignorance is retroactive bliss. Ignorance does not make you happy, because you don't have any reason to be happy. You don't what you're missing. That's the whole point. But it's also wrong to say that it was bliss. They mean the same thing, just in different tenses. Ignorance is retroactive bliss because you suddenly feel that you had been happier not knowing than you now are knowing. And this is true. The word happier is comparative - if you are sad and then become miserable, you were happier than you are. Ignorance is retroactive bliss because it somehow makes you feel happier in the past. The strange thing is that Past You somehow becomes happier, rather than Present You becoming less happy. This has lead me to some interesting thoughts on time travel, but all I wanted here was to explain that ignorance is retroactive bliss. Maybe I'll babble about time travel in a later blog post. Or an earlier one.
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Nope. Just checked. None of my earlier posts are about time travel. Yet. They may have been about time travel later on. That's the thing about time travel. Tenses start to mean much less, and also get rather strange.
