I'm massaging my forehead because I really just don't understand people and I feel

like. And I've said this quite a bit. We are in the age of idiocy. We really are. We are in an era

of what can only be described as willful ignorance. And I know that that's always been out here. But

at a time when information is so close to our fingertips, it feels even more insulting and also

frustrating to see how often folks choose to actually not know what they're talking about. This

episode explores willful ignorance. We got to talk about the ways in which that has become pervasive,

the harm that it causes. And also really just like the difference between willful ignorance and

really just like not knowing what you're talking about because like you didn't know that you didn't

know, right? But the biggest thing is also combating willful ignorance. Because I think that's the

other part of it. It's like we can point fingers all day people and be like, oh my god, they're

willful ignorant. But then it becomes well, how do you challenge that? How do you take the steam out

of that? How do you slow the momentum of willful ignorance, careening into this like other version

of truth? Because that's what keeps happening. People say things over and over and over again

to where they become this like alternative fact. Ah! Like the word woke. We all know what the

word woke meant. But then these folks co-opted it. And by these folks, I mean the right wing. And

turn it into this whole other like meaningless word that is really just a euphemism for black people

and folks that actually care about people. That's really what it is. If you use the context

clues, that's what it is. But this again is an example of the ways in which willful ignorance

gets utilized in ways that are really actually treacherous. And the willful ignorance of folks

who know what woke means and then use it interchangeably as a word to represent a whole group of

people that they feel like are beneath them. That to me is the treachery that we got to like

deal with and stop. And sometimes it feels like it's impossible. It's like you're standing on

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