Oh To Unknow

Today in our lunch and learn I told the others everything I had heard yesterday and I congratulated everyone on a good spy mission accomplished. They said that they also noticed Barry later yesterday afternoon just casually strolling by the coop and every time he did the chickens would come out and cluck for him and it made him seem to walk a little taller and puff his chest out a little bit and Carmel even said it looked like he had brushed his orange tabby fur a little differently to make himself look better for the chickens.

Out of everything we talked about the thing we talked about the most was how the chickens just wanted to stop knowing the things that they knew so that they could feel better.

I do not understand this desire and I do not think I have the ability to unknow something and I will give you a for instance. For instance, when I first learned that I shared a name with my evil twin I could have easily pretended that he didn't exist and that I did not know or I could even have used a different name for my weblog and my twitter and my emails because who are we kidding there are so many fake names being used on the computer what harm would one more do?

But no, I decided with a little help from learning more about new things that I wanted to keep my name and change it for the good and do good things with it and live a life of heroic virtue and I tell you somewhere along this journey of mine I really think that I am starting to be a changed bird and it is all for the better. And not because I chose to unknow something and find other information that I liked better even if it was not accurate but because I learned more new things to help me build a context around the other things I knew.

Billions and billions of chickens are slaughtered each year and I do not understand why unknowing that fact would ever change anything?