ALT black background white text that says, What Is Premeditated Ignorance? Premeditated Ignorance is the quality or condition of deliberate unawareness. It is when people do not know because they do not want to know. For, if they did know, they would have to take responsibility for the knowledge; and, they would thereby be required to renegotiate their identity and to relinquish the status, privilege, and authori-ty, that are derived from the false order of knowledge. At the very least, they would be compelled to leave their comfort zone.