(N.Morgan) Most people will hide when anything unpleasant or shocking presents itself, whether it be in the media or some new information they have obtained. Many will just blindly ignore that information, no matter how pivotal it may be. We see this every day on the internet and in our daily lives, people willfully ignoring what is right in front of them.
“Have you ever tried to pass on information so earth-shattering that you felt if people simply knew, everything would change? But instead of acting on it, they chose to bury their heads in the sand. That reaction is called willful blindness, and this notion occurs all around us, every day, from something as small as ignoring an extramarital affair, to corporate accidents like the BP oil spill, and even mass atrocities, like the rise of the Third Reich.”