I know that ignorance is not really bliss, that is if your heart can take all the awful information out there. In the past ignorance was like a safe shelter for me. Now I see it as a weakness. You look at human beings and begin to see patterns in their behavior and find that they are almost always not very humane, but appear that way sometimes when you don't know them. In their own homes there is likely some degree of discord and in their lives some degree of hate. And somehow people can convince others that they are "good people" I have become weary of this assertion because I believe that usually it is an act and a lie. A really good person is like a gem in the rough in my observations over the years.