They prefer to read
what they already know, as --
if that were the truth.
Novella "Sainte Anne" (1799, "Saint Anne", 2012, Isabelle de Charrière / Belle van Zuylen under the pseudonym L'Abbé de la tour), chapter 4: The biased, partisan reader wants to be blindfolded, and he values this so much that he even consents to be bored, on condition that he does not have to consider anything of substance.
Collection "Within the walls"