text: why are americans so happy to be so ignorent?   well you know what they say - "ignorance is bliss" if you don't know any better or believe everything the government is telling you then life seems a lot easier to handle.  it is when you start to question why things are the way they are, life gets much more complicated.  this is why religion is so popular, because you do not have to think for yourself, everything is absolute and anyone who says different is just wrong.  americans especially fall into this kind of conformity so they do not have to think to much.  let the church or the government do the thinking for you.  i know there is a lot more to this then that, but it is a good place to start.  please do not think that all americans are ignorant even if the majority seem to be.