They weren't excited about acquiring new information; they were relieved to find out they aren't the only doofuses (or maybe the word is doofi) in the world of rusty machinery.

The Tarahumara are renowned for their long-distance running ability.

[…]I ask you, rather, to evolve a suitable plan with due deliberation and report it to me."¹⁴

The prevailing concept of the Seventies remains the idea of the “Me Decade”—an era of narcissism, selfishness, personal rather than political awareness. […] Pundits and historians portrayed the Me Decade as the antidote to or repudiation of the activist, altruistic 1960s.