Ignorence

a theory poem; an experimental essay.

in the age of information, to be uninformed is a choice.

Ignorence, a portmanteau of ignore & ignorance, is the act of choosing what one gives ones attention to by way of first choosing what to ignore.

An example: Let’s say there is a recovering alcoholic, on their way home they know they may pass a liquor store, will be tempted to go in, so in turn they instead take a separate route home, thereby ignoring the liquor store altogether. This would be an act of ignorence.

Ignorence as selfcontrol against negative intention/actions; concerted dismissal with careful consideration. attention contra ‘thought’, to have the thought then decide instead to move against it, to go the other way. anticipation of the oncoming possibility of said temptation, simple seeing feeling smelling of ones present environment; appreciation as attention, as opposed to appreciation as thinking, as reconsideration, as daydream leading one toward an alter-destiny.

attention contra ‘thought’ as thought IS absence. To pay attention to ones thoughts is to be absent from the world in front of you, to ignore presence.

daydream is the opposite of presence; it is the ignorence of the now, in favor of memory & preplanning; it is the absence of new input, or at least the minimization of new input, a blurred-focus, sensory-dulled presence.

a quantity of new sensory input, moments unmarred by memory or, nature

pure perception is a relatively higher quantifiability of sensory input, creating a new archival of a fresh potent memory, enhancing potential vividness of recall. the nature of influence; pure perception is presence; memory is cyclical.

cyclical? as in, memory functions as an abstract clockwork of reminders, whether it is a song you havent heard in hours or years suddenly popping in ones head, or the sudden seemingly unprovoked ‘accidental memory’ of a childhood experience where no referent existed in the present, the feeling that a memory ‘came out of nowhere’ or ‘havent thought about that in years’, to the quotidian obviousness of memories cyclical necessity of time to go to work & how to get to where you need to go. not only the instantaneousness of the everyday but the unpredictability of the long-forgotten past rising up out of memorys archival network, be they in cycles of years or accessed by referent deferents, sudden reminders of an era past corresponding to the present, as in frequent memories of being 21 at age 25, or continually thinking back to being 18 when at age 30, etc.

Believe it was the young goddess Björk who once said that around age 40 she had a kind of tunnel-vision back to her memories of being 18 or 20, around the age she made her first solo album, & that that informed her then-new album.

Assumption that everyones cyclical memory is in infinite variance determined in part by their pointpath thus phenotype.

Whelm, to be whelmed, neither over nor under, unexpected yet welcome, pleasantly unexpected.

Ignorence, consciously ignoring information, ignorance by intentional ignoring that which (so-called) does not serve you.

Takes strength to ignore. Others faults, their transgressions. In the case of others’ opinions, Apathy wins. Ignoring hateful opinions Is an impenetrable wall of apathy. The paradox of forgiveness: to forgive the forgivable is pointless, true forgiveness requires forgiving the unforgivable.

If knowledge is suffering & ignorence is bliss, where is the mind placed today on the spectrum btwn focusing on memory & being present? Choose to be ignorent. Attention is a form of energy. Move forward & look around you. Take it in without judgement, insofaras that’s presently possible.