"Just as the Blackbird doesn't know that it's a Blackbird, much less carries the beautiful Latin name Turdus merula. So I'm out there, watching birds on the salt marsh when up comes a Twitcher asking what sort of birds I've seen today. Just birds, I reply, not knowing their names, much less their rarity value, or nothing of the nerd-like tedium that goes with enthusiasm of any persuasion. It's not birds they're interested in, it's the taxonomy."

A perfect description of 'wilfull ignorance' if I ever read one! Note that even "enthusiasm" is dismissed as "nerd-like tedium". Are you so god-like, 'Sinister Supporter' that you're above us ordinary mortals and our enthusiasms? Still, I can't help noticing that you do actually know the Latin name for the Blackbird - although, of course, it is only the hapless "Twitcher" who is the 'tedious nerd' - not you.

I also notice that you're not above analysing the 1954 definition - but then you're a morally and intellectually superior being, who is free from the 'taint' of enthusiasm, aren't you?