You're "doomed" to see through the "smoke & mirrors" [unlike the other 99%] - it is a life sentence.
Indeed. I often wonder how so many people can be so blind.
It definitely is both a curse and a gift. I will not be fooled, but I am cursed to forever agonize over why no one else gets it....
I run into this problem at school often. Most people I know HATED econ with a PASSION, while I found it both interesting and relevant. Some of the assignments were stupid and I didn't like doing them, but it gave me the understanding of basic econ I wanted.
Same goes for physics. Today in class we were discussing relativistic speeds, and the change in mass that occurs. The teacher said (somewhat jokingly) that he was scared to teach us about the relative mass laws, and asked if we should just stop. Most of the class was like, AGH NO! Lets stop, please! Only one other person and I said we were actually interested in why E = mc^2.
Shame that more people don't care HOW things work, so long as they do.
~Lordbob