We're Okay Not Knowing

We’re okay not knowing

That’s the truth of it

Woman standing in the middle of town

Screaming about
What’s going on?

We walked by her

Everybody walked by her

And that’s why you see this pushback now--

You’re getting pushback

Because, uh, well a lot of people--

A lot of people

Feel like they’re, uh, implicated

In the--you know--the cover-up

Whether they’re--

It’s not like they even knew the guy

But they felt bad

Because they knew what was going on

And they didn’t

Do anything

So when you’re faced with that--

You know

The obvious--

Well, like if we were watching it in a movie

The obvious thing to do

Would be

To say ‘Wow, I was wrong’

But you cannot--

I mean, you really can’t grasp

How badly

People do not like

Being wrong

And I don’t know--

I don’t know what’s in our DNA

That causes that

But people really will

Go to these, uh, extreme lengths

To not be wrong

So instead--

The extreme length?

In this case?

Is, uh--

It’s attacking victims

It’s casting doubt on victims

They don’t give a damn about this guy

They don’t--

They don’t care about

Protecting this guy

This guy is nothing to them

They don’t even know him--most of them

But they know

That they know

What was going on

Right?

Okay, and they--

They did nothing

And they have to--

Well, at that point?

Everybody’s covering up something

Covering up their ignorance

Their willingness to, uh, be ignorant

That they walked by the screaming woman

They’re covering up that they knew

And that they were okay with knowing

Or, in some cases, not knowing

But, you know, what I say to them is--

Or what I would say is--

The minute you cover your ears

You know

The minute you close your eyes

You know

The minute you get that feeling like--

Oh, I’d rather not hear

The next sentence

Coming out of this person’s mouth--

You know

Because even if you don’t know

Exactly what’s going on

You know that, without a doubt,

Something is going on

And then you choose not to know, but--

But the point is

You know enough

To keep walking

You know enough

To cover your ears

To hurry by

You know enough, don’t you?

So at that point

You know

And you’re okay

With knowing