Since when is ignorance a good thing?

I think most of us have seen it. I've seen it in shopping malls, and pretty much everywhere. Today it caught my eye again in the paper. National ignorance. The kind of "I thought Europe was a country!" ignorance. What happened to the days where ignorance was embarrassing? Now I see kids who laugh when they don't know something and give a totally uneducated guess. No effort/interest to try and find out the answer. So ignorance = hilarity?

Whats even worse is ignorance of their own ignorance. The kind that I saw all too often when repairing computers. From the article she said she over heard them talking about Pearl Harbor. And how they believed that it was was Vietnamese dropping bombs on a harbor that than escalated to the Vietnam war. Even more common is the notion that the Sun revolves the Earth (even though there is obvious proof to the contrary). How did we get to this stage?

Of course this doesn't apply to everyone. And for those of you who enjoy learning, I salute you.

Since when is ignorance a good thing?antivirus protection

Ignorance is a good thing when its a person who can admit their ignorance, and learns from their mistakes. Ignorance, and willingness to learn is better than those miseducated and have to be re-educated.

People think ignorance in others is funny because they like feeling superior to the ignorant, and those who are ignorant are also ignorant to the fact that we are in fact laughing at them, not with, which should embarrass them, but they think the're funny or cute or something.