Explore "The Way of Ignorance" by Wendell Berry on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. / T. S. Eliot, "East Coker"
OUR PURPOSE HERE is to worry about the predominance of the supposition, in a time of great technological power, that humans either know enough already, or can learn enough soon enough, to foresee and forestall any bad consequences of their use of that power. This supposition is typified by Richard Dawkins's assertion, in an open letter to the Prince of Wales, that "our brains . Â . Â . are big enough to see into the future and plot long-term consequences."