They put in effort to understand as little as they can.
Maybe that’s a personality quirk, maybe their brain don’t work right, who the hell knows. But they try to know only as much as they have to in order to do the job.
“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelli
gence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses
is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists
not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation,
through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal
of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure"
Willful ignorance.
They put in effort to understand as little as they can.
Maybe that’s a personality quirk, maybe their brain don’t work right, who the hell knows. But they try to know only as much as they have to in order to do the job.
Yeah
“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelli gence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure"
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