A friend and fellow travel writer wrote to me recently about how incurious many young people are these days. (He's a couple decades younger than I am.) I wrote back to him that incuriousness is nothing new, though today it has a political component - the idea that one group of people has been so prominent for so long that there’s nothing new to discover about them. It’s absurd, of course, on multiple levels, though it gives the incurious a perfect excuse for their incuriousness.
