... only on different subjects.
This one seems so obvious until you really think about it. We all have a blind spot, a Thing We Don't Get.
Mine is popular culture. I have no idea who Kim Big Butt is or how she's related to whoever and why people care. The same is true for most music people unless they were born in the 1940s and 1950s.
But I can tell you about the history of comic books in America, and discuss American Realism and Naturalism in fiction, and also help you troubleshoot your computer.
Some people can tell you how to game the system and get something for nothing. A dubious talent, but a talent, nonetheless.
It's all in how you look at it, right? We're all ignorant, and we're all smart -- just in different spots.
But when I see pictures of Miss Big Butt, I do have to wonder, I admit....
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