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{{a|devil|[[File:Rumsfeld.png|450px|thumb|center|I ''knew'' you were going to say that.]]{{unknowns}}}}{{def|Unknown known|/ʌnˈnəʊn nəʊn/|n|}} | {{a|devil|[[File:Rumsfeld.png|450px|thumb|center|I ''knew'' you were going to say that.]]{{unknowns}}}}{{def|Unknown known|/ʌnˈnəʊn nəʊn/|n|}} | ||
{{santayana}} | {{santayana}}The one type of [[unknowns|unknown]] that doesn’t appear in [[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy - Risk Article|Donald Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]], but which ''should'', since it is probably the source of ''more'' catastrophic events of our time than any of the others: [[unknown known]]s are the things you ''do'' know, but you don’t ''know'' you know. Things that, courtesy of that tremendous fiction the [[corporate veil]], an institution may be [[deemed]] to know, but about which none of its present representatives has the faintest clue; things which one might have once known but ''forgotten''; things which one is in total ''denial'' about, and the unpleasant realities of our modern, [[complex]] world to which one is not, presently, facing up. | ||
The one type of [[unknowns|unknown]] that doesn’t appear in [[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy - Risk Article|Donald Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]], but which ''should'', since it is probably the source of ''more'' catastrophic events of our time than any of the others: [[unknown known]]s are the things you ''do'' know, but you don’t ''know'' you know. Things that, courtesy of that tremendous fiction the [[corporate veil]], an institution may be [[deemed]] to know, but about which none of its present representatives has the faintest clue; things which one might have once known but ''forgotten''; things which one is in total ''denial'' about, and the unpleasant realities of our modern, [[complex]] world to which one is not, presently, facing up. | |||
As Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]] eloquently puts it: “the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we ''pretend'' not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values”. | As Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]] eloquently puts it: “the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we ''pretend'' not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values”. |