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Originally Posted by Crowl
... the worst version of it being when people seem to almost delight in their ignorance about something as if not knowing nor wanting to know something is actually a badge of honour to them.
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I think it's a defense mechanism. I've had people (especially older people) confide in me that they didn't think they could learn how to operate a computer/cell phone/DVD player/etc. if they tried for a million years. To these people (my grandmother included), the technology is so alien that they can't get their heads around the broad concepts needed to feel confident in attempting to learn how to use it. For some of them, saying that they don't
want to learn is their way of suppressing their feelings of inferiority borne of their intuition that they would be incapable of learning even if they tried.