It’s great what the woman who originated this thread is doing for her parents, but it’s shocking just how pig-ignorant so many people are.

Ok, that’s not fair to our suid friends — they are after all quite intelligent.

How exactly have we produced a society where so many people know so very little about anything, even regarding events that will have huge impacts on their lives? Is this just a necessary state of affairs? Or what? I can’t understand it. I know that most people just are not very curious at all but this general ailment seems more than just lack of curiosity.