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I've Moved!!!!!Visit me at http://rebekahlynn.wordpress.com or http://thoughtprovoked.com Ignorance is NOT Bliss.
I've been thinking alot about ignorance lately. Someone asked a question on q&A last month about the "gap" in the world today, and my immediate response was: Ignorance. Everyone agreed with my statement, but there wasn't much satisfaction, because just knowing that ignorance exists, doesn't make it easy to fight.
As tensions have continued to grow in the middle east and militant islam extremists are being compared to Nazi automotons, whose children are bred with a sole purpose of furthering their cause, my frustrations have only grown. When the president of Pakistan writes a book and is forced two days later to retract his accounting of bounties paid his country by the CIA for capturing key members or Al-qa'eda, my frustrations grow.
Today they reached a boiling point as I read the following article:
There is great debate as to whether the internet cultivates or helps to alleviate ignorance. For my part I did an extensive search and found virtually no relevant sites about ignorance that were not masking some other personal agenda. Much of the information being handed out online to "fight" ignorance, is in fact promoting it.
I posed the following question on qna. I found the answers both saddening and enlightening as to the "devil may care" attitude taking over the world.
What can we do to fight Ignorance?Posted: 48 minutes ago
Tags: ignorance, knowledge, intelligence, peace, politics, sociology, Philosophy, People
Answers (5)very simple, random acts of kindness !! think about it, it makes sense......
Posted: 45 minutes ago
 Get rid of religion, and the Democratic and Republican parties and you will go a long way towards fighting ignorance.
Posted: 45 minutes ago
Great question Rebekah! I say one way we can fight ignorance is by creatively finding ways to motivate and encourage people to continue to learn and have an open mind.
Posted: 41 minutes ago
 What about you? I'm going to sound like a preachy activist here, but stop and think. Don't bury your head in the sand! Is there a religion, culture, movement, political stance or other area that you find yourself lacking in knowledge. Take a few moments right now and educate yourself carefully about something you don't understand. Then share what you've learned with someone else who needs to know, maybe we can keep schoolgirls from being stoned and young boys from strapping explosives to their chests. Accepted!I've been accepted as one of ten participants in this years Ghost Ranch Writing Retreat in Oracle this summer, I'm quite excited to workshop the novel version of "Butterflies" there and they seemed really positive about the marketability of the concept, so hopefully the week working with editors and agents will nab me a sale. It gives me a deadline to have the manuscript ready, if nothing else and all I have to worry about now is paying to get there. lol.
The week has been a blur of pain, labcoats and cat naps. I had all my medical tests finished up this week, so hopefully I'll have some answers on Wednesday. Let's just cross our fingers.
I've been busy working on my websites. I'm doing a very extensive Literary Calendar for thedailymuse.net which is time consuming, but I think will ultimately be a big draw to the site, and I've already gotten emails from people wanting to be notified when the launch of aurelmontgomery.com happens, so things are moving along.
I had an article published on Success.com this week (as Aurel) , and submitted to a few other ezines. My goal is to get one out a week, but we'll see.
I'm dreaming my novel for Nano and having fun learning all about the NSA and intelligence from some great online groups, so I'm feeling a bit more relaxed about November.
And, I was also accepted as one of ten members of an AMAZING online critique group, LDSmindspill. We are required to do daily excercised and offer feedback, and I just love the group already.
Ok, enough about me. Oh wait, that's the point isn't it? I GET to be egotistical here and pretend that people care. Editor for WritingNews.org and other minutae.I've been accepted as the newest Editor at writingnews.org a news information source for writers. This will be my first official endeavor under my nom de plume, Aurel Montgomery and along with preparing for Nano in November I'm striving for an official Nov. 1st launch date of thedailymuse.net, my inspiration and resoure site for authors, also edited cheifly by Aurel. Beyond that I'm shooting for a Jan. 1st launch date for aurelmontgomery.com. I've met a very talented graphic designer that I'm excited to be working with for that project.
My novel for Nano, The Twelve, is undergoing daily structural and character changes which I hope to have ironed out by Nov. 1st.
I'm also applying for the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship, a 6-12 month artists residency program in Germany, so I'm working on getting my application materials polished for that. Wish me luck. VindicationLest I forget why I love to hear Stephen King talk about writing, a timely quote:
Read the full article from the Washington Post here.
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