Things are now ignored that didn't used to be ignored.
Nobody can now ignore that Europe is currently facing a huge predicament; this obliges Europe to reinvent itself once again if the region wishes to realise the original aspirations that motivated the current project of building and integrating Europe, establishing a closer union between its peoples and its regions.
Now win the war, by ignoring that weakness and moving on.
Those who continually call for regime change in Iran as a condition for improved relations with that country, as Obama's critics are now doing, ignore that history.
Yet just as Western countries, or at least their banks, played a crucial role in turning the 1997 Asian crisis of liquidity into a crisis of solvency, Asia is now ignoring the fact that the U.S. problem is less one of government debt than of sustained international trade imbalances, which have transformed America into a debtor nation.
And they have been running with the "Obama can't 'seal the deal'" story for weeks now (ignoring the story that he has led in the polls the entire time), so they're ready for a new storyline.
Once, government and media gatekeepers could define both "mainstream culture" and its acceptable language of discourse; now, people can, rightly, ignore that kind of attempt to impose the values of the elite onto all of society.
The explosive debate over drug policy in America is now so impossible to ignore that even the president is often forced to comment on it.
Now, ignoring Lena Headey's in-character-warning that gatecrashers would be "boiled alive in their children's blood," HBO has released an insane new trailer for Season 6, which premieres on April 24 (coincidentally or uncoincidentally the date on which Troy fell in 1184 BC).
But to think that we should now ignore everything that it has done for the past 200 years is foolhardy".
