Creative ignorance

Today I want to talk briefly about ignorance, but the creative kind

"Poorly educated people are endowed with an exuberant inventiveness" said the great English writer and critic William Hazlitt, i.e. they are free from prejudice and have a variety of concepts.

A striking example was Shakespeare who was a notoriously and formally uneducated person who nevertheless did admirable things.

But who are the creatively ignorant? They are basically rebels, that is, people who do not follow the paths traced by the maps of knowledge of those who have gone before them.

-" A little tree said to his father: I don't want to be a tree when I grow up, but a book so that my family won't die...."

However, even rebels cannot love passive ignorance because who does not wish to climb the pyramid that leads to knowledge?

the difference between people who are very passionate about knowledge and those who rebel? Enthusiasts descend to the bottom of the pyramid in great detail, but the more they descend, the more they lose the light, they lose the vision, that is, they know more and more about less and less, in short, the more one knows, the less one does new things. Which is not the case for the creatively ignorant.

Do we have some striking examples of people at the bottom of the pyramid?

Yes, Blackberry, who at the appearance of the IPhone said: "this is a toy" and we all know the end it came to....

So yes to ignorance that is learnt but creative, genuine that rebels and rejects the acquired maps of knowledge.

The ideas and reflections are many and for now I will stop here and it is only right to mention the person from whom I have taken these concepts, namely Prof. Piero Formica