Never underestimate the average persons total lack of introspection.

Most people are out here living wholly unexamined lives.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”- Thoreau

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Most people don’t have the time to think. They work one, maybe two, jobs rush to pick up kids, cook or pick up food, homework w/ kids, chores around the house, wrap up for night (especially painful with kids), rinse and repeat.

I don’t think most people even have the ability to think

And rather than constructively criticizing themselves they'd rather ignore reality

They outsource that to other people.

There are too many words. I don’t understand

Sad to say, but IQ has a big part to do with it.

Absolutely. Dumb people have a steep learning curve.

Another way to frame it is via model of hierarchical complexity

Many don't have the horsepower to connect the necessary dots

I think about this often. The older I get the more I think I was wrong when younger me used to believe he had sufficient capacity to be introspective.

So much time lost.

This realization shocked me

Is the English way