me: Hey, do you know how birds have sex?
Matt: Uhhh… no.
me: Do they mount each other?
Matt: I don’t know. Do they do it in the air?
me: Should we look it up?
Matt: No, it’s better not knowing like this.
Well, I’ve found being able to stand a little mystery—possessing a degree of “negative capability“—can be very useful in the information age.
