Though the title might sound rather oxymoronic, as ignorance is rarely worth pursuing, the same, nevertheless, has been one of the most desired and perhaps sought-after pursuits vis-à-vis the masses in the corridors of power in our part of the world. This is, as has been throughout history, manifested in all-out efforts to gloss over truth, distort realities, frame exclusive practices for sustaining historical lies, glorify what the country and its people were made to face and justify curbs on questioning, critical thinking, dissent and rights.

The pursuit of ignorance or, more aptly, engineered ignorance, suggests a pursuit that tends to cultivate manipulated consent and solidify the interests of particular groups, ideologies and brute operational realities.

You might question the claims of public support and logic for paradoxical pursuits — that is, what is it that mandates stakeholders to work against people and truth, and seek manipulated consent? What did all the democratic promises, social contracts and........

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