The problem is not ignorance but knowing how to act on what we know

Evidence

The problem is no longer that we do not know these weighty truths—it is that too many of us do not know how to know them. We all know that our world sits on top of the Shadow Lands. But what do we do with that knowledge? Where does it go? Where is the outrage and shame and sadness diverted? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 783

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A concise, timeless formulation: knowledge without method is inert — the difference between knowing a fact and being able to think with it.
• QUESTION: This ‘where is the outrage diverted’ question is precisely the mechanism that the rest of the book (the Mirror World) proposes to answer — flagging it as the hinge of the argument.
• XREF: connects to: Being conscious of one’s project does not entail knowing it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1340; Sometimes not understanding how a practice works is crucial to its survival — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 349