Thread by @cinemashoebox

rot in hell, etc, obviously, but fwiw i always thought the "known unknowns" thing was a sensible, elegant, quite useful idea

"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."

this is true, and well put, and useful

of course it also implies the existence of unknown knowns, the things we don't know we know, which Errol Morris made use of in this slightly frustrating film about how Rumsfeld armours himself against reality (an armour that Morris never breaks through)

although it's extremely annoying that the tagline on this poster is about unknown unknowns, not unknown knowns???

anyway, like i say, rot in hell, Donnie