I agree with your gut feeling and add that to me it feels im surrounded by f*ing Zombies.
It's not that they are too stupid, but they don't even __try__ to think.
It's not that they are too stupid, but they don't even __try__ to think.
Our society has a pathological obsession with productivity.
I like to give the opposite kind of lecture, like when someone refused to even consider alternative ways of solving a problem. Some phrases I like to throw around: "you just wasted 2 days of work, because you skipped 30min of research at the start", or "it's arrogant to assume, you'll find the perfect solution on the very first try".