I kind of dislike XKCD strips like that because they seem to encourage people not to think. In actuality the issue may be much more nuanced: - Perhaps differen

I kind of dislike XKCD strips like that because they seem to encourage people not to think. In actuality the issue may be much more nuanced: - Perhaps different things do have a greater or lesser degree to which they lend themselves to deep analysis & enjoyment - Perhaps engaging in meditative analysis of some interest such as wine is valuable in itself even if it is mostly arbitrary what people choose to analyze. - Perhaps the decision that wine is worth studying was mostly just an accident of history, but now that it's become part of culture failing to engage with it represents a failure to engage with valuable cultural traditions. Any of those ideas and others might be worth agreeing or disagreeing with. However, it sometimes feels like people just read the XKCD comic and don't think beyond "wine snobs dumb". Edit: To be clear, I'm not trying to say that the parent post is doing that. Just that I'm not a fan of how XKCD engages (or more specifically doesn't engage) with some issues.