Ignorance

[Olga Meerson]

Dear Kore,
Thank you for the beautiful comment. Very humbling indeed.
o.m.

Kore Gleason wrote:

>Dear SEELANGers,
>
>It has been a pleasure for the long while to read your posts as a tremendous 
>supplement to my understanding of all things Slavic, East European, Eurasian 
>and otherwise, and I look forward to many more discussions and contributions. 
>
>It has been, however, disheartening reading the accusatory tone behind this 
>recent string of comments...   
>
>Sure, we can find it surprising in our particular circles that someone has not 
>heard of  Lolita, but that is because we’ve had the privilege to read it. We can 
>find it surprising that a person doesn’t know where the Atlantic Ocean is, but 
>we forget that we've had the privilege of seeing it or being taught where/what 
>it is. 
>
>I would think that History, especially the specific histories of the gulags, 
>concentration camps and atrocities that have been mentioned in the same 
>breath of this discussion, would have taught us the invaluable need to 
>reevaluate what one person’s ignorance means – and why it entitles another 
>person to feel better, smarter, greater. 
>
>If you’ve ever taught American adults how to read for the first time, helping 
>them string the alphabet soup of the shapes and sounds of letters together, 
>or held the hand of a Russian who experiences the ocean for the first time in 
>his multiple-decade(d) life, marveling at the smell and feel of seaweed and 
>waves, 
>
>then we’d all understand better that our inequalities in “intelligence” make us 
>no less equal in humanity. 
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Kore Gleason
>
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