We have access to so much information. I Google things all the time because I love to understand life. I just looked up why zebras aren’t ridden like horses. Not because I have a particular interest in zebras– it was just a thing I wanted to know, and it only took a minute to find out.
Things I am interested in– I learn as much as I can about them. If I like a movie, I will look up reviews to hear what others think. Learn about the making of it.
But some people never take the time to research anything. Even if they have a question pop up in their head, they won’t care enough to type it in a search bar.
Why are some people like this? I can’t fathom why you would not want to delve into things you’re interested in.
If you are on Reddit, you are not the type of person I’m describing. But maybe you know someone who is, and can explain to me how they think. Because I truly do not understand
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I’m like this too and I know others who are. a lot of people just aren’t really curious enough to seek answers to things they see as unimportant. idk, some people say curiosity has something to do with intelligence
I look things up when its something I need accurate information on for practical reasons in a fairly immediate fashion. The rest of the time, its more ideal curiosity/intrusive thoughts and its simply not something I require an answer on so it tends not to occur to me to look it up because… for why? How would it serve me? I’m not benefitted by knowing exactly why zebras aren’t ridden because I have no intention of trying to ride a zebra, for example; its something I can comfortably handwave as “they’re probs not strong enough or domesticated enough or something” comfortably because it has zero impact on my life. 🤷🏼♀️
Sometimes (for me, personally) it’s just more fun to question things and wonder about them/theorize than it is to actually KNOW.
Yep I am just like you because I only made it halfway through your first paragraph before going down the Zebra rabbit hole myself. If I had to speculate they just don’t care enough about the question to actually find the answer. Or they could just be using the question to spur discussion.
Well why didn’t you look this up if you’re such an up-looker? :p
So
>why zebras aren’t ridden like horses?
Ok, I will give you another prespective, some people, even I do it sometimes
ask questions that can be googled, not exactly to seek answer but to start a conversation,
you know.
To be honest I am overdid research. Right from torrents, project gutenberg, when internet started to store good information. Then I realised started i over did it, probably some energy that I could have spent on planning finances or vacation or working on relationships or other goals, I was feeding my curiosity too much and something was getting sacrificed. Although I’m still annoyed that some people don’t do basic research that they should do. But also I’m trying to embrace that they may have different priorities or way to deal with life.
I have this feeling that looking up whatever we are curious about and getting answers in an instant kills our ability to find out our own answers.
I am extremely curious and I always googled random garbage. I’d forget all about it during the rest of the day. It was some sort of addiction, almost like porn. Well it mostly taught me nothing and my focus has been all over the place for as long as I can remember. Ever since I stopped googling everything my mind has become clearer and I can actually focus now. And if I really need to learn something, I make sure to learn it properly (slowly, in depth and in a way that I can remember) Just gotta accept that most of the knowledge is useless to most of us. Information overload is a real thing.
Greatest minds were not trivia monsters. They were great because they mastered whatever they were good at.
EDIT: A good example is “learn-to-code” communities. Specifically people who consume hours and hours and hours of tutorials and yet can’t even apply it when they need to solve a problem.
The thing that gets me is when people use a written form of communication, like text or instant message, when they could instead just type the same thing into Google and find the answer just as fast, probably.
Like if you’re together in person yeah, ask away, if I know then I can just tell you. Or if it’s something that I have particular expertise in that might be tricky to Google or find the same level of detail about, then sure, text me about it.
But for basic stuff? Half the time I just default to “I dunno but you could probably Google it” lmao
I think it’s less about actually getting the answer and more about just saying something and getting people to think about it
In conversation contexts I think it’s at least for the fun of coming to an answer just through discussion and thought exercises.
In terms of people who just simply don’t want to know things… I’ve heard it described to me by an older fellow that he has a functional model of the world, and that he doesn’t care to learn more because
1) it sometimes upsets the balance of his well-being for no good reason, and
2) it takes energy to learn and un-learn, making him tired and confused for something that won’t even affect his daily life.
I hope I never become that guy, but it was interesting to hear him say it.
Some people are lazy and/or want others to find things out. Some people are spoon fed their information and believe it so they don’t go looking. Some people just don’t know how to look for information. Some people are “afraid” of thinking or trying to process what information may be found, so they don’t look. Some people just aren’t curious enough to go looking for things.
Probably.
Many, many people on Reddit don’t bother to look shit up.
My mom was a lot smarter than I used to think, but she was told all her life that she wasn’t, and wasn’t deserving, and should just make the best of her limited circumstances, so she was intimidated. When her factory job got a computerized system, an outside trainer came and my mom was the best student and had to help the boss log in, that kind of thing. But she never touched the home computer or bought a cellphone, if it wasn’t “her job” she’d just … not imagine that it was something she could add to her already busy life. Too “fancy”, ain’t nobody got time for that, learning was just more work and that was the last thing she wanted, also it would be another opportunity to feel stupid and embarrassed and judged by failing or being compared to people who knew things she did not.
I wasn’t raised with great self-esteem either, but since I was small any questions were answered by pointing at the dictionary and saying “look it up”, so I am a great reader! Education is so important; if my mom had been taught to research and debate in school, the way I was, she’d have been a different person. She’d do amazing baking and crafty things for parties, based on picture in a magazine, but whenever people said “you’re so creative!” she’d downplay it because she didn’t believe it, she said anyone could do it if they practiced a bit (but never extended that logic to anything academic). She encouraged me to do well in school because it was “too late” for her to get anymore education, and it was forever before I realized how untrue that is, she could have got some kind of adult exemption for not having a high school diploma, and while she was never going to be a physicist, she could have been a nurse or secretary or restaurant health inspector or real estate agent.
I dont look up things like you do. I’ve had a phase where some things really interested me and I was really into them, but that drive kind of left me and everything now is more like “oh, ok, interresting”. Sounds to me like you’re young.
Doing a 36 hour work week I don’t have the time to be curious
Laziness or ignorance
Not everything is worth learning about imo.
You underestimate the suffering of humans. I too, once, had a thirst for knowledge before the internet was prevalent. I lived on the saying that knowledge is better than rupies or gold.
Around the time i started learning about pedophilic sex rings and their cover ups, I learned there were a lot of things i didn’t wanna know. I don’t know why we suffer, why we allow our children to suffer, and i find it difficult to live naively after knowing what I know.
Occasionally, i will Google things. But until all of us are free, none of us are free.
It’s pretty frustrating. I’m the type of person that will pull my phone out immediately in a group setting to google stuff. But then I’m seen as rude or silly. I don’t get it. They will be sitting around having this big discussion about something, going back and forth, when you can find out the answer in literal seconds.
Sometimes, even if i know that i can google it, i’d rather ask the person the question to keep the convo going, see what they think. idk. it highly depends on the situation so i get what you’re saying.
I think there is an element of information overload. Some people just prefer to know what’s relevant to them.
I don’t understand neither, from what I see is that if they don’t try to look things up then they must don’t rally care about those questions. well, besides my mom, she just doesn’t know how to make research through internet
Most people simply don’t care enough and sometimes the information presented would contradict their own perception of things, so they even actively avoid learning something new.