Deliberate ignorance of subjects that seem useless is a common and self-fulfilling attitude, but for postmodern philosophers Deleuze and Guattari, its not just misguided, its missing the point of thinking.
NOTE: Deleuze’s attitude towards rhizomes wasn’t a metaphorical one, as is represented here and in much secondary literature and analysis - he viewed them as extant ontological entities in virtual space. (I have no idea what that means.)
A Thousand Plateaus, by Deleuze and Guattari - http://www.kareneliot.de/downloads/Deleuze%20Guattari%20A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf
PBS Idea Channel Finale, Part 1: What are Ideas, and Who Gets to Have Them? by Mike Rugnetta - https://youtu.be/JkOIhs2mHpc
Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training, TV Tropes - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining
Discovering the Capacity of Human Memory (Wang et al, 2003) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yingxu_Wang/publication/226698223_Discovering_the_Capacity_of_Human_Memory/links/02e7e520563e2e180e000000.pdf
Deleuze (A Thousand Plateaus), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#ThoPla
Preparing the generous reader by Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar - http://www.betterevidence.org/us-edition/issue-1/preparing-the-generous-reader/
Maximizing meaning: reading informative texts in Developmental Education (Y. Rijk, 2017) - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Maximizing-meaning%3A-reading-informative-texts-in-Rijk/729b974c338d088d7da2b8a4e2ab5128a67d7e17