Every "I just don't understand X" that becomes a cultural commonplace does so because of a profound shared will not to understand.
@womzilla It'd be a pretty magical day that enough people knew what tensor calculus was for that statement to become a cultural commonplace.
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@chaosprime I suspec you're talking more about "I don't undestand women" or "I don't understand why people object to prayer in school" -
@womzilla Ding. :) -
@womzilla Nobody's identity positively depends, in an existential threat kind of way, on not understanding tensor calculus.
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@chaosprime True enough. However, rocketry and brain surgery are totems of "difficult to understand" because they are, in fact, difficult..+ -
@womzilla Nobody really makes note of it, though. Nobody goes around saying that about rocket surgery and brain science. -
@womzilla Things they go around saying it about: women, trans people, sex offenders, other cultures.
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