One more question: I wonder if there could be some anti-intellectualism somewhere in there. Like: If you do math & such for health reasons, to keep your brain

One more question: I wonder if there could be some anti-intellectualism somewhere in there. Like: If you do math & such for health reasons, to keep your brain fit, that's cool. But if you read a bunch of history and physics books (without being forced to) just to know lots of things, that's pretentious and you're just trying to be better than us normal folks. Not sure it's a very strong argument, but curious to know what others think.