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The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not Ignorance; it is the illusion of Knowledge

A debatable philosophical topic, if viewed from either way is valid based on the perception of that particular person. When one talks about philosophy, nothing is correct or wrong. People tend to find comfort in things they are familiar with; uncertainty deems them to find various ways to minimize their fundamental discomfort, which gives rise to individualistic perceptual opinions. Knowledge is something that is not physically quantifiable and hence impossible to scale it by any degree of measurement. Absence of understanding leads to ignorance. People tend to ignore things that are unknown to them and hence deliberately debates to prove it false by any means necessary. Take the example of a child and an illiterate person. A child typically cries over anything that irritates them or things they desperately want, without any consent of their parent’s suffering. Now, the question that arises is that the unintentional ignorance showed by the child a threat to knowledge; funny how

WIMBLEDON (The Soul of Lawn Tennis)

          W imbledon- the royalty of tennis tournaments, definition of elegance, glimmer and what not. Started in the 1980s, a trend that initiated the beginning of tennis, also known as ‘The Gentleman’s Sport .’ The green court filled with grass gives one the feel of nature. A strict dress code of ‘White Clothes’ does limit the wardrobe selection of a sports person. However, it is not the worst part; someone whose body color matches the white dress code perfectly could end up resembling Miss Havisham’s tablecloth.   However, amidst its royalty, the dark side of Wimbledon often gets overlooked. The All-England Lawn Tennis Club has a pretty grotesque history of sexism and ignorance; Venus Williams asked to play on Court-18, i.e., not in a center court, even after being a five-times Wimbledon Champion, something that wouldn’t be done to the top male tennis players like Federer, Nadal Djokovic and Murray. Unequal prize money is another example, although thanks to Serena Williams