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At a time when information was not so accessible, perhaps it was more common to wonder.

Accepting that we can't or don't know some things is difficult in the digital age.

By not exercising skill of reason, we make ourselves more vulnerable to manipulation.

My partner James (pictured here in his natural habitat) is the inspiration for this post. During a night of trivia, as we observed other teams looking up answers after each round, he made a comment to me: "People don't not know much anymore." He talked to me about the lost art of not knowing, and he was right.

In our current age, it's impossible to get away from information. We spend less time wondering.

Driving, even on routes I could guess myself, I turn on the navigation. My chances of getting caught up in a newly forming traffic jam are sliced, but so are my chances of wandering around a bit.

Sometimes it feels good to get a bit lost.

Don't know, can't know

The information superhighways have grown enormously in the last few years. What in the past we'd have no way to know except maybe by going to a library (and hoping the book we were handling had accurate, up-to-date........

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