I find it odd that most people only learn things (if they do at all) after they realize that they personally have something at risk.
What is really remarkable is that they don’t notice this pattern and thus never arrive at the conclusion that they have always got something very valuable at risk; their lives, their happiness, their wellbeing, and so forth. They don’t see that they are always gambling everything on ignorance, to keep them “safe”.
That this is true is not a secret waiting to be discovered – it’s obvious – so it must be that people don’t want to know what they have at risk and therefore don’t really want to learn anything.
