The analyst Robert Fox recounts Roger Bacon, writing in 1267, identifying what he considered the worst form of human error: "men blinded in the fog of their errors do not perceive their own ignorance, but with every precaution cloak and defend it so as not to find a remedy."
That is, men ignorant of how ignorant they are fight to protect that ignorance from any perceived attack or real change.
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