I’m loving this thread, haven’t been on for a while and just thought I’d check in, this discussion hit close to home. My youngest ( just graduated college) and I just had an (argument) sorry, discussion over my assertion that first hand knowledge would always be superior learning things second hand. He told me about how he could read about more things than I could ever experience. Well, you can’t argue with that but when I told him that anything written would first have to be experienced by someone firsthand, he told me that I needed to get out more.! I could not help myself, it had to be said! “You mean,” I asked, “get out more and experience things first hand”? I then reminded him, “I HAVE been out more, forty years more.” I guess these type of replies are what eared me my “A-hole” status with him. In any case he did not reply.