Purpose

Ignorance is rampant. But if ignorance is bliss, then why is everyone depressed? Some might say, because ignorance isn't MEANT to be bliss. But surely that isn't an adequate answer, because, just as surely, famine isn't MEANT to be so widespread. Genocide isn't MEANT to occur. The Nazis and Hitler weren't MEANT to take power and commit the atrocities they did. Surely there are many things that ARE, that are not MEANT to be. Is ignorance the exception or is it the rule?

Better yet, does it matter?

Take, for example, a car manufacturer's assembly line. Near the end of each car's assembly, the car is painted by a machine. For argument's sake, let's say that one particular car was MEANT to be blue, but due to unknown and uncontrollable circumstances, the car ends up being painted red instead of blue. One could say, "this car is red, but was MEANT to be blue," but in acknowledging that the car's intended purpose was to be blue, does one affect the actuality that it is instead red?

No, it doesn't; one could say, "that red car was MEANT to be blue" until one was blue in the face, and the car would remain red.

If, in being red, the car defies its intended purpose, similarly, in being bliss, does ignorance defy its intended purpose? And further, in simply being one way as opposed to the other, does one defy one's intended purpose?

In being, does one defy one's fate?

All of the previous supposition operates on the assumption that the person examining all of this believes in fate (which I do not), but entertaining the idea regardless, I come to the conclusion that without knowing one's fate, it is impossible to defy it with utter certainty.

Until one reads the cosmic book that holds the knowledge of all events and people past, present, and future, how can one know that one is not doing exactly as it foretells? It would be like playing a game you've never played before without it being explained to you beforehand; how could you know that you were or were not playing by the rules, if you didn't know the rules in the first place?