I've written about this before, but the thing that always gets overlooked about this quote is the "unknown-known" corner of the truth table: the things we take

I've written about this before, but the thing that always gets overlooked about this quote is the "unknown-known" corner of the truth table: the things we take for granted, but do not ever think about. These are what we _really_ need to worry about. In the case of Rumsfeld, it was the prisoner abuse, the civilian casualties, the torture, the blowback, ISIS.. In our lives this can be structural inequalities, the way power manifests in systems, Conways's law, all that. The big one, of course, is the environment. We're all fully aware that we're in the middle of a complete ecological collapse, and that without drastic action and change in both our habits and the geopolitical world order, our grandchildren will inherit a nearly uninhabitable Earth. Yet we all continue on as if nothing is wrong..