Crisis is the stupidity to ignore knowledge Response to Becy Collins Crisis is having the stupidity to ignore knowledge. Regardless of the debate around smoking and not smoking and sciences' position of authority and its methodology in which it legitimates itself, we as a society as individuals have a choice to accept knowledge or ignore it. Herein lies the crisis which I feel is encapsulated within this image. The crisis is that knowledge is ignored and worth nothing. If we choose to, we can put knowledge in a neat little pile of rubbish, along with the cigarette butts, its own special spot where we can throw it out with the trash whenever we want.
Ignorance is the crisis of ignoring the knowledge.
However, in contrast, 'crisis' is not having the knowledge to ignore knowledge. This image also plays upon our mind in a world that contradicts itself in layers of binary opposites. The image shows to us choices. The choice of free will and self- determination, the free will to chose to do as one pleases, regardless of scientific knowledge, social pressure, and society. To recognise that knowledge it not fixed, that it is always in a constant state of flux, and what was harmful one day, is no longer the case the next.