My mom doesn’t like anything that makes her “have to think” when she’s relaxing.

I just finished reading “The House of Lincoln,” and one line really stood out because it described so many boomers, my mom included.

“Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren’t stupid, they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren’t responsible for anything that goes wrong.”

And the book is one my mom would learn a lot from, but she would hate it, because she doesn’t like to read anything that makes her think. She won’t watch dramas or mysteries for the same reason, and mainly sticks to comedies. It just struck me that this line, and the following passage is too accurate for today’s world.

I wonder if that’s how we got to this point- with people choosing any pastime that gives them an easy way out, and never stopping to think about why.