The Final Countdown - 5

Ignorance is bliss.

I believe the statement is true in most cases. Look at our fears for example. You wouldn't fear anything that you don't _know_ is dangerous. Your knowledge of what consitutes a danger is what causes you to get scared. Granted, in some cases your reaction of fear to some danger may help you evade it. Adrenaline and stuff. But in others you have nothing to do. And you just spend precious moments of your life in fear.

You need another example? Another very well known statement, You don't miss what you don't know exists. I don't think we need to prove this one. And again knowledge is crucial. When you know and experience something, and when this experience results in positive feelings, you are bound to miss that something later on. So again, ignorance of that something will have spared you the missing-the-something part.

It seems to me as if feelings come in signed quantities, positive and negative. And on average our sum will hover around the zero. The more "positive" feelings you experience, the more "negative" feelings you can expect to experience later on, or maybe in cases you'd get the negative part earlier on. Still, the (in maths talk) limit of the sum will be equal to zero, as human beings approach death.

I won't elaborate on how all this relates to my current state of affairs (relocation and stuff), I will though pose this question:
If ignorace is bliss (No I won't say then why aren't more people happy)
If ignorance is bliss, then why do we naturally seek knowledge? Is the natural human curiosity just a fancy name for looking for trouble?