Faith

"'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true." Nietzsche

What can be said about that quote? When we have faith in something it means we don't really want to know. Knowing takes a great deal of work and the vast majority of people are lazy or are struggling just to survive. Of course, this same majority knows so little about the world that it is frightening to think about the level of ignorance at which most people live. And when it is a choosen ignorance it is all the more sad. To have access to all of the world's knowledge but choose to waste away ones life worried about celebrities or the latest consumer product is tragic. To have a population that claims faith over knowledge is to have a population incapable of governing itself.