Ignorance in Action
In the entirety of U.S. history, where does Goethe’s quote here best apply?
Most Americans would agree that it’s the behavior of Trump supporters post the 2020 election, their clinging to the baseless claim that the election was rigged, and the mindless hatred they feel for the rest of the country’s people as the “woke, radical left.”
Another solid answer is our population’s ignoring the challenges beset upon us by global warming. As the late Kurt Vonnegut put it, when he saw what was happening shortly before his death, “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.”
As we can see here, Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus represented the concept that, for man to acquire the best for himself, he needed to be woke, i.e., concern for the well-being of others.
One common trait among many of our civilization’s great thinkers is their humility. Perhaps this started with Socrates and the line for which he’s so well known: “I know that I know nothing,” meaning that true wisdom is knowing you don’t know anything.
The author of the meme here makes a great analogy.
I grant that the concept here has merit, especially re: the use of otherwise useless land. But bicycling under it doesn’t seem like a pleasant experience. And does the cyclist enter and exit?
In this short and extremely general 
I honestly don’t know what would make an intelligent person say that.
Sadly, we live in a country where many people have neither, but they’re too ignorant to realize it.
“Hate” is the wrong word here.
