For someone who has repeatedly disclosed to me that you carry a measurably high intelligence, you seem to spend an inordinate amount of time complaining how disinterested you are in putting the effort into learning complex subjects.
that's only because I needed you to stop man-splaining everything I already knew so I could get a word in edgewise

if you recall.. you were pretty repetative about your hi-IQ
In
MY experience, in order to more fully understand the complexities of the world and the people in it around me, it takes a lot of effort and persistence to read and try to comprehend things which I do not yet fully understand in sufficient detail to qualify as
"knowledgeable" about those subjects.
Koans & homilies are easily stated in a sentence or two but those understandings did not come from thinking short thoughts with few words.
They are distillations of
CENTURIES of deep philosophical pondering which rare unreasonably insightful human beings have spent more than a second or two contemplating.
Either you have a lust for understanding or you do not.
If you can't spend the time, maybe you shouldn't make the claim that you have it?
For me to more fully understand my wife's kidney disease and ensuing transplant health care I spent approximately 1,500 hours studying medicine and every human bodily system - just so I could track what her doctors were asking us to do
(blind faith in experts in white lab coats was never my strong suit).
Reading a couple of Swedish studies on acetaminophen only to find out modern medicine's RDAs (4,000 mg. - p.i.d.) are off by a factor of 3
(the Swedes came to the conclusion that 1,400 mg. -p.i.d. should be the MAXIMUM
allowable daily dosing) allowed me to not only convince her doctor to prescribe oxycodone
without Tylenol but by doing the conversion off the added acetaminophen in that medicine allowed her to stop taking the little purple pill - Nexium
(esomeprazole) - entirely.
No stomach upset from the Tylenol = no need for a PPI
(protein pump inhibitor) to quell the queasiness induced by the excess Tylenol.
But to read those 2 studies and fully understand them as well as the testing protocols, took up the better portion of an entire day.
Or, I could have blindly accepted their findings and then tried to get my wife's lazy-azzed personal physician to study up on it instead of going water skiing and playing in his semi-garage band.
Lots of luck with
THAT one.
when I need or want to know about (OR more about) a topic.. I do relentless hours of research too.. if it's not something that interests me.. I shrudge and move on.. I don't know everything.. nor do I need to.. and no.. I don't blindly accept when anyone tells me something medical that affects my person or someone I love.. I too do extensive research and I'm not afraid to discuss/challenge my findings with a medical professional as I have numerous times on prescriptions and treatments..