Good question George, with a simple answer: short-termism with a dash of sheer ignorance!

We laughed ourselves sick over the sheer ignorance of that kid.

It was sheer ignorance what he did with the economy.

He won't cut the numbers of ministers any time soon because they take the blame for his sheer ignorance and lack of knowledge.

People who laugh at the C64 do it through sheer ignorance.

So many mistakes were made out of sheer ignorance.

It could be said that I undertook the journey in sheer ignorance, armed only with a talent for survival learned during years of war.

This is sheer ignorance on the part of the person who said it or typed it.

How can a true epidemic, the first in a thousand years, be combated before millions die out of sheer ignorance and lust?

We can't have a visitor running around loose like this, it's bound to make a nuisance of itself through sheer ignorance.