I was thinking this morning about some of the things I didn't understand or know or remember, but which I made an effort to learn (even-numbered interstates run east-west; when to use "whom", though I occasionally get that wrong; ways to start a book review that don't start with "This book").
But here are three that I don't know and have no intention of ever learning, because I just don't care:
- latitude and longitude
- the rules of light reflection and refraction, including the difference between concave and convex (though if pressed, I bet I could come up with an answer to that, at least)
- anything to do with time travel
And before you tell me, next time we talk, that whichever "l-itude" runs the long way, let me tell you: they span a globe! They're both long. Light refraction - for whatever reason, this makes no sense to me (and is there a difference between reflection and refraction? No idea). And oh, time travel! I know people who can explain why there's a time travel paradox in this book or that movie, and I just don't care. It'll make sense for that thirty seconds while I'm hearing it, sometimes, but then drift away. I'm reading Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card right now for a book club, and he not only goes into detail about time travel in the text, he writes a lengthy afterword explaining why he has broken the rules of time travel. Dude! If time travel ever happens, let's assume it's some sort of miracle of science, and not worry about why, 'kay?
Some might find this embrace of ignorance depressing, but really, I don't think everyone can know everything, so this is just a more overt declaration of some things I don't care to learn than most people make.
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