I believe it was Oliver Sacks that once said that we live much of our childhoods in an arcadian state, and thus we spend the rest of our lives trying to recapture that state; even if it did not exist in the first place. And what a fitting tone to start an advanced conversation on the blissful ignorance we are at times seem to be searching for. However, perhaps going beyond just an arbitrary need from a break from adulthood once in a while,  Margret Herfernan’s theory of Willful Blindness represents a more elevated culture of ethical and social avoidance that not only causes us to voluntarily see less of the world as it truly is but also robs us of our own agency and creative and imaginative capacity to live a more free life. Thus this episode is called “Freedom and the Blissfully Ignorant”