What happens when a society has access to more information but suffers an underdeveloped capacity for collective understanding? In this week’s In Class With Carr, the concept of "Super Ignorance" is used to label contemporary relationships between education, power, technology, culture, and collective memory and action. Continuing Session 342’s discussion of deepened literacy and slow learning as Ways of Knowing that also combat hostile Social Structures, we include additional examples centering these traits in struggles over what can and should be taught, emphasizing that learning is never just the acquisition of information. Using the Africana Studies Conceptual Category method, we ask who controls knowledge, how communities preserve and interpret it and how systems of power can produce ignorance even amid unprecedented access to information. Donald Trump’s absurdist injection of "super intelligence" as a label to mask predatory relationships between social control and human learning obscures a deeper dilemma. The problem for oppressed people is not simply whether machines can process more information for their individual use (and exploitation), but whether an information-saturated culture fragments collective learning, replacing sustained inquiry and collective action with individualized consumption and manipulated interpretation. Against this, we position select examples of Freedom Schooling, rites of passage, culturally grounded education, teacher collaboration, ritual, art, and memory as Cultural Meaning-Making practices. These practices center and connect Ways of Knowing to Governance purposes in hostile, anti-Black Social Structures. “Saving Institutions from Social Ignorance” asserts that answers cannot be found by simply adding more information or more powerful technologies. Instead, alternatives lie in education grounded in long-view memory, alongside honed and consistent protocols for developing individual capacity to contribute to collective inquiry and action. This is the type of education that teaches people not only how to know, but what knowledge is for. Are you a member of Knarrative? If not, we invite you to join our community today by signing up at: https://www.knarrative.com. As a Knarrative subscriber, you'll gain immediate access to Knubia, our growing community of teachers, learners, thinkers, doers, artists, and creators. Together, we're making a generational commitment to our collective interests, work, and responsibilities. Join us at https://www.knarrative.com and download the Knubia app through your app store or by visiting https://community.knarrative.com. To shop Go to:TheGlobalMajority More from us: Follow on X: https://x.com/knarrative_ https://x.com/inclasswithcarr Follow on Instagram IG / knarrative IG/ inclasswithcarr Follow Dr. Carr: https://www.drgregcarr.com https://x.com/AfricanaCarr Follow Karen Hunter: https://karenhuntershow.com https://x.com/karenhunter IG / karenhuntershow See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
