Coming at us like this—in waves, massed and unbreachable—knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment—becomes bad knowledge—so we deny it, riding its crest until it subsides from consciousness. [....] In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence. [....] If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
A television series made in America and aired in Japan to sell US meat there winds up becoming the unlikely vehicle through which lives are changed, and authenticity is found in the fabulist.