You know, occasionally I feel completely inept at topics of pop-culture. I've been thinking a lot lately about areas of specialty, or focus of knowledge. I think that my problem, if it can be considered a problem, is that I want to know about too many things, so I never quite get to the level of expert in more than a few areas. I have friends who can sit and discuss mythology for hours, or friends who can hear a line and tell you the movie, the actor, the year, the director, and the genre of film. And when they do this, I feel horribly ignorant. I wonder if I'm the only one who feels this way... is it bad to want to know everything?

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