ignorance is bliss theme
The old wisdom that one may be happier not knowing certain things is featured.
13 total · 9 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh2x14 | major | The story pointedly culminates with Grace shooting her trusted servant dead, Minnie, for shattering her illusion about the fidelity of her husband's love. Minnie had gone and done some investigation to uncover the elaborate con that Keith had perpetrated. Had she left things well enough alone, Grace would have lost all her money, but lived in blissful ignorance that the love of her life was nothing but a money grubbing conman. |
| futurama1x11 | major | Farnsworth felt that Gunther was better off as a genius, but in the end Gunther felt happy living a life with average intelligence. |
| futurama6x16 | major | The large brained cyborg conveyed this message at the story's conclusion. |
| movie: Charly (1968) | major | The mentally challenged man Charly was leading a contented life until such time as he underwent an intelligence boosting operation. |
| movie: Flowers for Algernon (2000) | major | The mentally challenged man Charly was leading a contented life until such time as he underwent an intelligence boosting operation. |
| movie: The Matrix (1999) | major | Agent Smith gave Neo the choice to return to live a happy live inside the Matrix, having no memory of the harsh reality that it was just a fantasy world, but Neo chose to face reality and join Morpheus in his quest to overthrow the tyranny of the machines. Cypher spoke this aphorism in a conversation with Agent Smith in which Cypher expressed the desire to return from the real world into the Matrix. |
| movie: The Matrix Resurrections (2021) | major | The choice between taking proverbial "red pill" or the equally proverbial "blue pill" came up again and again. |
| tng6x17 | major | everything was going pretty well in the prison camp until Worf started causing trouble |
| tos1x22 | major | aliens lived quite blissfully under Landru's rule until the arrival of the Archons |
| ahp1x35 | minor | Irene and Howard's marriage was reinvigorated because they falsely came to believe that a playboy prince had killed himself over his love for Irene, when really he had merely been pursuing her for her money. |