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It's probably how the placebo effect works. You stop draining the energy required in the healing process because you think "The pill is handling it."

Ignore=ance is the skeleton structure of social realities. People who willfully ignore things are the pillars of society. Without them we'd crumble into a stupid mass of starving armchair philosophers trying to eat our words.

Ignorance is what parts the sea of chaos. The empty space that is left alone Just Because. It draws the arbitrary boundaries that gives structure to all conscious interpretations of reality. While its arbitrariness is indeed arbitrary. It is all we have.

Metaphors are like wormholes. They can feel like magic, they can feel like cheating (within a race context), and they can feel invasive when they don't respect boundaries.

The "Hand of God" in the anime Hikaru no Go is a metaphor. I think Enlightenment is the same. It's a metaphorical goal that's technically impossible and only serves to make a finite game into an infinite game.

The "patriarchy" can feel overly controlling and invasive just like the father who insists on watching every time his daughter has sex to make sure she doesn't get raped. There's something "wrong" with it despite its virtuous intent.

Homelessness can't be solved because homeless is the symptom of a broken society funnel that is letting too many people drop out of it. You can't fix the funnel because it's hard to debug and you can't truly "fix" homelessness except by alleviating the symptoms.

"It's much easier to be on the verge of something than be it." - Markus Zusak