Then how do you explain, in your model, the comic’s implicit observation that people do not apply this same attitude to to learning to play music, cook, or speak a foreign language? Let’s try to fit reality here, not just rag on people for being “anti-learning” in the same way others might speak of someone being “anti-freedom”.
Briefly, cognitive bias of some kind. Compartmentalization. Belief that what I like and enjoy is good and worthwhile , and what I dislike is bad and useless. It’s the failure to apply the lesson from a favored domain to an unfavored one that is the worthwhile point of the author’s statement.
Then how do you explain, in your model, the comic’s implicit observation that people do not apply this same attitude to to learning to play music, cook, or speak a foreign language? Let’s try to fit reality here, not just rag on people for being “anti-learning” in the same way others might speak of someone being “anti-freedom”.
Briefly, cognitive bias of some kind. Compartmentalization. Belief that what I like and enjoy is good and worthwhile , and what I dislike is bad and useless. It’s the failure to apply the lesson from a favored domain to an unfavored one that is the worthwhile point of the author’s statement.