is ignorance really bliss?

I've been thinking all day about how i think about birds in comparison to how God thinks about us.

i for so long swore I'd never own a bird. i just didn't think it was fair to put the poor thing in a cage when it should be free. birds weren't meant to stay cooped up in bars... it's why they have beautiful wings. but, as i thought about them, and about God... i began to wonder if that's how God sees us. except that our mind is our "cage." i wonder why God made us smart enough to know there are answers to life's greatest questions, just not smart enough to understand the answers. but, would i rather be lost in ignorance, or know there's more to life and try to figure it out? is ignorance really bliss? would i, if i were a bird, rather know and see that there was a bigger world out there and be able to at least look at it, or just stay safely away from the truth? would i rather have an owner try to give me the best life it could, while still keeping me safe, or stay in a small cage with a slew of other ignorant birds? it's only that because of how i was raised that I'm not aloud out in the open...... it's not safe. but if i, by nature, hate ignorance, wouldn't i rather get as close to truth as i could and as far away from ignorance? if i were a bird, i would want that... i would want to be as far away from the masses of ignorance........ and so now i, as a young learning human, want a bird. i want to give it the best life it can have without letting it get harmed. i want it to know there's more to life, and show it what i can. i want to set it free from the crowded messy masses of ignorant birds. let it live the best life it can.