Eh, there’s a curiosity aspect as well. I can’t do work on my car, but I can change the oil, tires, brake pads, and such. I understand the principle of how an IC engine works. I’m a computer programmer but I think it’s because I’m a curious person who likes knowing how things work, and computers offer more chances to learn than anything else on the planet.
It isn’t ignorance that has ever bothered me about boomers, zoomers, or anyone else. It’s that 99% of people you meet are fundamentally incurious. They don’t care how things work, they don’t care if they could work differently.
This so much, all the information in the world one click away online and most people just doom scroll nonsense. If money wasn’t an issue I’d be a perpetual student, just learning things for the heck of it.
Eh, there’s a curiosity aspect as well. I can’t do work on my car, but I can change the oil, tires, brake pads, and such. I understand the principle of how an IC engine works. I’m a computer programmer but I think it’s because I’m a curious person who likes knowing how things work, and computers offer more chances to learn than anything else on the planet.
It isn’t ignorance that has ever bothered me about boomers, zoomers, or anyone else. It’s that 99% of people you meet are fundamentally incurious. They don’t care how things work, they don’t care if they could work differently.
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Curiosity was always rare, and not always encouraged. We’re the “make the same hand axes for hundreds of millennia” people, after all.
This so much, all the information in the world one click away online and most people just doom scroll nonsense. If money wasn’t an issue I’d be a perpetual student, just learning things for the heck of it.