A SATISFIED PIG OR AN UNSATISFIED HUMAN BEING???

My professor and I where having a conversation after class concerning the issues that we had talked about during lecture. A question was posed in class which asked whether everybody in the class would rather be a "satisfied pig" or an "unsatisfied human being". Naturally, everybody in the class said "Unsatisfied human being" and that answer jolted me into serious reflection. After class I decided to share my thoughts with the professor.


I asked the professor whether it did not strike him as amusing that everybody in the class,  preferred to live their lives as "unsatisfied human beings" than as "satisfied pigs". Most students in the class chose the former instead of the latter because nobody wants to be compared to a pig but in reality, most of us including myself live our lives as satisfied pigs.  Socrates once noted that "the unexamined life is not worth living." The life of a satisfied pig is a life that has not been thoroughly examined, the life of an unsatisfied human being is one that has been examined and reexamined daily. 


My professor conjured up an example in which he reminded me that in a previous class I had taken with him the previous semester, all the students in the class had admitted to ignorance being blissful. In that particular class, the professor had asked us to think back to a time when we were "MOST HAPPY" and most of us referred to our childhood as a time when we were at peace with the world, and not burdened with any responsibilities. He then pointed out to me, that most people preferred to remain as children, ignorant but still in bliss. 
I then made a point to him about how most people always say "life is to short, to be anything other than happy,' but they never seem to realize that the source of one's happiness could stem from them living in ignorance. Would they still pursue knowledge if they knew that with knowledge came misery? 


In conclusion, I believe that most people would prefer to live their lives as an unsatisfied human being rather than a satisfied pig. But in reality, most of us live our lives as satisfied pigs. We do not ponder, we do not investigate, we do not care to know about how kids in China are toiling day and night to make our precious Nike sneaker etc.