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Touche.
Loved that reply, it summed up loads of things said in posts before but which no one paid any attention too.
I think the problem also lies in that, people asking questions like that (and in that manner - SimenN could have asked very politely for someone to explain to him why 4'33" is considered a piece of music or a piece of art; but he didn't) will also disregard anything said by people who support the kind of thing they don't understand, or don't want to understand. Otherwise, they would have rephrased their question.
Ignorance is not bad. We are all ignorant once, and there are many things of which we will be ignorant even when we die. However, it's the attitude to that ignorance that can be annoying or not. If someone is ignorant, and he acknowledges that, and he does want to learn more and is not afraid of what he might find out or encounter, that's a lot more different than someone being ignorant, and also ignorant of the fact that he is ignorant, and not wanting to leave that "zone of safety", the things that he knows and is familiar/comfortable with, that his ignorance provides (as opposed to the unknown, what makes him feel uncomfortable and thus try to avoid).
Here's some news: people who were afraid of the unknown never did anything in their lives. To the other extreme, people who conquered the unknown discovered America, set the foundation for nuclear physics, or set foot first on the moon.
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