# Admit it. What stuff are you ignorant about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-what-stuff-are-you-ignorant-about/577087 "2011-04-03T22:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-what-stuff-are-you-ignorant-about/577087/33 "2011-04-04T04:31:02Z")
Symbolism in movies/books. If you get me started I can usually run with it. If you tell me that bird seed nourishes the birds the same way money nourishes the family I can _logically_ interpret that the bear that shows up in the backyard rummaging through the bird feeders represents the bad guys that are after your dirty money (Season 1, Sopranos). I can follow that symbolism for as long as the writers keep it somewhat in tact. My problem is that I think logically not symbolically. If it wasn’t pointed out to me to begin with, the bear in the backyard would have just been another event that I would have taken at face value and never given another thought to. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-what-stuff-are-you-ignorant-about/577087)._