Information without application is entertainment. Mostly we are entertaining ourself when we think we are gaining information.
We cannot get the experince mere watching or learning certain things. It is like the young kids in my block, who knows cricket, but never played the game correctly. In my perspective, When life gives the oppurtunity, we should experience and explore it completely rather than being just a spectator. These days I met few travellor, who just wants to go certain places for namesake, like to keep up in their record book. They never interested in knowing much about the place...pretty strange as traveling is just now done for namesake.
This is how I see it. May as well collect bottle caps.
It seems the armchair athlete group is growing globally.