Much Ado About Nothing Or Is It

So these past few weeks the world has been going on about this Kony character. Now for those of you who have been living in cave or under a rock and havent heard of him, allow me to introduce him to you. Reader, met Joseph Kony: this man is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) which eventually somehow became an Ugandan guerrilla army. i guess that is what happens when just like a certain US president you think you are god's spokesperson. He abducts young children only to turn them into sex slaves or child soldiers. 

Great ... now that youve met him i can get back to my point. So its been all over the news how some young dude came up with a short film called "Kony 20102" in an effort to stop this dude. He presented it in the form of a picture perfect campaign. Apparently it worked wonders. My facebook news feed and twitter was over flowing with all sorts of article and video links on this guy and how we must do everything we can to stop him and what not.

The Kierkegaardian Human Understanding

So I am sure some if not most of you have heard of Soren Kierkegaard. The man was a Danish philosopher, and is even believed to have been the first existentialist philosopher too! Many years ago I came across and interesting quote by him and it just popped in my head again. He once argued:

"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply posit the paradox"

It is an interesting paradox he has provided us with, but true nonetheless? Are we really better off not knowing certain things? Better yet, are some things really better off unanswered?