Are you familiar with the personality type who sees a problem with everything?

"If you put on the sausages first, they'll be burned by the time the toast is ready. Ah but if you put on the toast first, it'll be cold by the time the sausages are ready. And what about the tea? Oh god, you don't want mushrooms as well!" Let's forget about breakfast!

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Yes - a sort of text-friend I won't identify as he's an SW user, who is interested in various engineering topics, but very naïve about the world beyond his rural Mid-West American region.

When I describe anything technical but unfamiliar to him, his usual reaction is not interested curiosity in a different way of designing or doing common things, but to dismiss it as unworkable. He seems to have three grounds: a) problems and dangers he sees or invents, and exaggerates beyond reality; b) outside personal experience so can't see it works well/ works safely/ even exists; and c) the old "Not Invented 'Ere Guv!" attitude.

To be fair to him, I think I would be no better if I too were a young man with few prospects in the bleak, culturally isolated society he describes.