Americans, culturally, are a deeply incurious people, not just because they lack innate curiosity but because they do not see the value in having knowledge.
The flip side of "I don't need to learn that because I can always just go look it up" is... never going to look it up, whatever it is.
My fellow Americans strike me as blithely unconcerned with the potential dangers of not knowing what they don't know.
@quadrivial @chu
So the science fiction that keeps coming to my mind is "The Cold Equations".
@CoolBlenderKitten