The cover picture of this pithy book says it all: ignorance could be a blissful reality as it does not involve not knowing but constitutes an abject surrender to denial in the event of reality becoming too hard or painful to grasp. Exactly like the abject denial by world leaders at the online G20 Summit in late March, proclaiming that the world ‘will overcome the pandemic’. Such collective denial has cost society lives and livelihoods as coronavirus ravages the world, confirming thereby that democracy has become a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Renata Salecl, a professor of philosophy at the University of London, is intrigued by the overwhelming relevance of ignorance in the post-truth era when we swim in a constant surge of information and misinformation.