Redefinition of Ignorance: In Response to artilce in Economist called:
"tyranny of choice."

In their Xmas special, economist had an article about how the
tyrannical force of having too many choices in our lives could
decrease our happiness. The thesis was basically this: how having more
choices does not bring about more happiness.
Now, that thesis one very obvious fact that is, in fact
too obvious once you read it more carefully. The assumption is that we already do
believe that more choices make us happier. But no we
don't. Many of us already know that we don't need a lot of choices and we don't want a
lot of choices too. Having a lot of choices is a FAD that is the result of
an unsustainable propperity that westerners have enjoyed so far with
their unlimited needs and ostensibly unlimited resources to supply those needs, just like any other FAD. The article assumes that people who are not enjoying many are ignorant.
Well that is not generally true, because a person may have only once choice, but also be mindful that all the other choices are irrelevant for the purpose that he/she intends.

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