Prompt one: Can and should one live the unquestioned life?

In high school I wrote an awesome essay titled "Ignorance in the Pursuit of Happiness." Ever since then I have believed that for one to be truly happy, one must be truly ignorant.

The essay was on The Great Gatsby. The wealthy elitists lived a lavish life in their money and luxury while others on the other side of the island lived in great poverty and grief. Gatsby himself was not aware of this and he was overwhelmed by sadness when he first visited that place. Am I making this part up? I believe this was part of my argument, but I'm not that sure as of this moment. But using this example, here we see that the wealthy elitists were able to live an extremely happy life in their wealth without worrying about those who were less fortunate.

To others, and the readers alike, these individuals are living a horrible distasteful life. They might be criticized by their ignorance and materialistic lifestyles.

To them, however, they do not know of these criticism and they are not aware of their ignorance so why should they care? If they were to know then they would be consumed with grief and anger, but as long as they have their ignorance, this is not the issue. As long as long as they have their ignorance, they shouldn't have to really care about anything! and therefore live an extremely happy and carefree life.

So, having not really answered the question yet, lets ask again: should and could one live an unquestioned life. I say "should" first because the "could" part is pretty hard to answer.

For the sake of the individual, one should live an unexamined, purely ignorant life. If they can accomplish this, they will be so happy they won't know what to do with all that happiness. So yea, the trend is hoop skirts but you think hoop skirts aren't that great so you don't wear hoop skirts which makes you an outcast in a superficial world and all of a sudden you're part of that group who wears black lipstick and smokes next to some retarded tree on campus. However, lets say you keep ignorant of the fact that hoop skirts are atrocious and are just part of the media trying to make more money for some designer who's already filthy rich who will then make some fashion magazine more credible. But in your ignorance, you can wear the hoop skirts and look, as the media has told you and everyone else, beautiful and be popular and become a great businessman with all the great business associates you have come to collect over the years of popularity in high school and college and have a great life.

Yea, Socrates would probably spit at you from his grave and say "The unexamined life is not worth living to be truly human and thereby truly happy each man and woman must subject his or her own life to careful testing." But whatever...Socrates is not going to come hunt you down from his grave nor would you really come to examine your life and ask yourself "Why am I so happy?" People usually ask themselves "Why is my life so effed up" so they can have as much happiness as you. And say you do ask yourself why you're so happy, your "true principle of right thinking and acting" is upon ignorance since its already made to so happy thus far.

Now the question of can we truly live an unquestioned life is that its pretty hard but lets not lose faith! Lets get a little idealistic and imagine that nothing is impossible! Say you do get informed of something which will only bring you more grief then take advice from my sister who told me this my senior year of high school when she saw how many APs I was taking. "Just eff it!" Who cares how many APs I'm taking and who cares what college I go to. YEA! WHO CARES! Put it away in some place in your mind where nothing is ever given a second glance and stalk on ignorance!