The Fear of Learning, Part 2

So where do you stand on the topic of Gumby and Pokey?  One guess I would take is that you might be young enough that Gumby and Pokey are completely alien to your world or maybe just a vague joke reference from a more recent movie or tv show.  Just because you don’t know about something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or never existed.

The truly intelligent people have a defining trait (and this is just one of those out of many “smart person” traits.  The ability to admit you don’t know something, and if you want to know it how to do actual research.  Real research, not bullshit gematria research that insists that Dishonest=113 and never Truth=113.  Or Nigger=102 (the enslaved) and never Oppressor=113.

Yesterday I learned there is a word for the fear of claymation - lutumotophobia. And just like other more common phobias those that suffer from it have a measurable negative physical reaction to watching claymation animation.  The idea of watching an episode of Wallace and Gromit is terrifying.

Your typical conspiracy theorist “true believer” who does not actually suffer from lutumotophobia would dismiss the idea as nonsense.  They themselves often suffer from neophobia, a fear of actually learning new ideas or skills.  A terrible problem when a world is changing rapidly without even a full generation going by before what was learned becomes obsolete in a lifetime.  They don’t want to learn and decades of mental anguish from the ridicule has made the expense of therapy not an option.  The option of being a keyboard warrior and mouthing off in retaliation is the outlet for pent up frustration in a world that demands keeping a pace that’s unsustainable.  And frankly, thinking that climate change is a hoax really doesn’t help - even for the promoters of grift centered around it.  There seems to be a lot of, “Oh fuck it - I’ll be dead before it’s a problem” mentality going on while the expense - born of lack of even basic education - is already here.