For the few with that special itch, this ongoing, routine human activity means nothing, proves nothing, and leads to Nothingville. But unless you see it for what it is, you IS part of it. It is a 360° scene which, if you look at it normally, will stick to your eye/I-balls and make you blind.
It makes no difference to a Real Rebel if other people claim/believe they know why interest rates fluctuate; why wars start; the purpose of life; why some people are so stupid; what happens after death. An air conditioned man with his own outdoors fish to fumigate understands that what other humans are made to say, that they believe they know about any and all matters which they can talk about but cannot physically touch, has no bearing whatsoever on his cookout and search for exotic food. The onliest instance in which pretending-to-know-when-you-do-not affects his existence is when it occurs in his own backyard.
If you truly want to remain ignorant, just keep noticing how ignorant everyone around you is. Just keep mentioning how even experts and world leaders act like they know what they are talking about, but that you know better. They don’t fool you! They’re all a bunch of idiots and frauds! Sure they are, but that IS man’s second reality; from an immediately meaningful perspective, that whole world is a fraud. Who is going to keep such a world going other than frauds – willing frauds. Stop being one yourself and their existence will cease disturbing you.
In one sense, those who long for the awakening/enlightenment are reacting to a feeling of theft; that the routine conditions of man’s mental life have stolen from their mind. Stolen its innocence, its pristine-ignorance and original capacity for extraordinary joy, and forced it to imitatively adopt a façade of claiming to know things which it and you clearly do not know.
Being asleep and unenlightened is being pretend-ignorant;
being awake is the real thing
J.