Willful ignorance now functions as a collective survival strategy.

Evidence

On a more general level, philosopher Renata Salecl (2020) recently argued that a proliferating willful ignorance has become a means of survival, taking the form of a (pervasive and pernicious) collective denial of reality. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 720

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the common assumption that ignorance is dysfunctional — resonates with the reader’s manufactured-uncertainty theme in finance, where denial often keeps speculation running.
• QUESTION: Tension worth exploring: Salecl frames ignorance as survival, but McGoey frames engineered ignorance as domination — how do these accounts reconcile?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 720