Philosophy means the love of knowledge. The closest I came to finding something on the love of ignorance is the phrase, "Ignorance is bliss". In reading about Socrates and looking at the bust of Socrates to me he just doesn't look that blissful. I guess his quote, "I know that I know nothing."; Just seems to back this up. It just seems that ignorance upset him and he had trouble dealing with it. Maybe it just me.

Socrates had 'roids ...

Oh. That explains it then.

I have experience times when knowledge was bliss. I don't think that just ignorance is blissful.

Roids can really hurt.

Ignorance is its own punishment ... Preparation H is its own reward ...

I learned a new word, today; Neologism. No, its not a bowel movement caused by roids. In psychiatry, the term neologism is used to describe the use of words that only have meaning to the person who uses them, independent of their common meaning.

Amen.

That is actually really interesting, to me at least.

A neologism (pronounced /niˈɒlədʒɪzəm/); from Greek νέος (neos 'new') + λόγος (logos 'speech') is a newly coined word or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language. Neologisms are often directly attributable to a specific person, publication, period, or event. According to Oxford English Dictionary the term neologism was first used in print in 1483.

In theology, a neologism is a relatively new doctrine (for example, rationalism). In this sense, a neologist is one who proposes either a new doctrine or a new interpretation of source material such as religious texts.

Neologisms are often created by combining existing words (see compound noun and adjective) or by giving words new and unique suffixes or prefixes. Portmanteaux are combined words that begin to be used commonly. Neologisms also can be created through abbreviation or acronym, by intentionally rhyming with existing words or simply through playing with sounds.

Neologisms can become popular through memetics, by way of mass media, the Internet, and word of mouth, including academic discourse in many fields renowned for their use of distinctive jargon, and often become accepted parts of the language. Other times, however, they disappear from common use just as readily as they appeared. Whether a neologism continues as part of the language depends on many factors, probably the most important of which is acceptance by the public. It is unusual, however, for a word to enter common use if it does not resemble another word or words in an identifiable way.

When a word or phrase is no longer "new", it is no longer a neologism. Neologisms may take decades to become "old", however. Opinions differ on exactly how old a word must be to cease being considered a neologism.

Many neologisms have come from popular literature and tend to appear in different forms. Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book; a few representative examples are: "grok" (to achieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; "McJob", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Sometimes the title of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 (from the title of Joseph Heller's novel). Alternately, the author's name may become the neologism, although the term is sometimes based on only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from George Orwell, referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ballardian" (from J.G. Ballard, author of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices Marquis de Sade described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of the Bokononism family of nonce words.

Another category is words derived from famous characters in literature, such as quixotic (referring to the titular character in Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes), a scrooge (from the main character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol), or a pollyanna (from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name). James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark.

Lewis Carroll has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabberwocky", which incorporated dozens of invented words. The early modern English prose writings of Sir Thomas Browne are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the OED.

The children's book Frindle by Andrew Clements is a story about neologism.

I think I have written poetry that is neologism. Yeah. Its a cool word.

But 'neologisms' aren't as fun as 'Spoonerisms' ... and 'Jabberwocky' is WAY cooler in German also too ...

"Es brillig war, und die schlichtige Toven geiert und gimbelte in dem Wabe ... "

I wished I had learned German when I was born in Frankfurt and went to school at Karlsruhe but I came to the states when I started fourth grade.

It seems to me that the Ignorant are always happy, carefree and relaxed while the knowledgable seem troubled, exhausted and challenged.

So I can definitely understand how ignorance would annoy them. Perhaps he was jealous? I know that I am.

Hmm ... used as it is in this context, the implication is clearly that the knowledgeable would be ENVIOUS of the 'ignorati' rather than 'annoyed' ... I'd still rather be among the 'knowledgeable' ...

forest gump is a good example... made a good life just gumping thoruogh...

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I like that.

I have a wonderful friend at work. We have had talks about this. She would call me when she was off work and tell me that she just couldn't stop thinking. The thinking was interfering with her sleep. It was like she couldn't find the off switch for her brain. I asked her if she had tried to find the off switch.

And here I thought that it meant that's the logic that Neo used to beat The Matrix.