I don't know. A lot of it makes sense to me. We spend most of our time doing stuff that doesn't matter, and watching other people do stuff rather than doing it ourselves.
How many people even know how to play a song, or paint, or have ever tried to learn? For that matter, how many have even gone to a movie without first reading the reviews or talking to friends about it.
"Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own."
"Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it."
"One of the most difficult features of direct experince is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories."