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[Deset Gled]

I am still amazed by how hard some people work to not understand something. I read Catch-22 in high school (and that was a while ago), so it's definitely not a new concept. But it still catches me off guard.

 

[prabe]

I am still amazed by how hard some people work to not understand something. I read Catch-22 in high school (and that was a while ago), so it's definitely not a new concept. But it still catches me off guard.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Mencken might have been a deeply unpleasant human, but this is among his more cogent observations--and it applies well past literal jobs and salaries, I find.

ETA: Apparently this was Sinclair, not Mencken.

 

[Deset Gled]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I think the part that gets me on ENworld is how much the same man will fight even when he's not paid to not understand it. The bizarre point where not understanding it becomes some weird facet of self identity.

 

[prabe]

I think the part that gets me on ENworld is how much the same man will fight even when he's not paid to not understand it. The bizarre point where not understanding it becomes some weird facet of self identity.

As I said, well past literal jobs and salary. Self-image/self-perception matters at least as much. If my self-image depends on my being unable to cook, there's a better-than-even chance I'll screw up the heating instructions on prepared food.

 

[trappedslider]

you left out the cost of the duct tape...

 

[Scribe]

I am still amazed by how hard some people work to not understand something. I read Catch-22 in high school (and that was a while ago), so it's definitely not a new concept. But it still catches me off guard.

It makes some threads particularly unbearable.

 

[trappedslider]

Now I wanna find someone who is named Art and tape them to a wall so that if any one says it's not art, I can look them right in the eyes and say yes it is and be right.

 

[prabe]

Now I wanna find someone who is named Art and tape them to a wall so that if any one says it's not art, I can look them right in the eyes and say yes it is and be right.

 

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