Obsessed with the cosmos/universe

haiku:

next downy fountain
a white, small kitty pounces
watching the feather

Why does she think she is the center of the universe? "Mother Nature, Cosmos", all of these associations fall out of her and especially when she is drunk.

My mother thinks there's nothing she doesn't already know. She is rationality incarnate. She won't even educate herself on topics because she believes she inherently knows the foundation of everything (psychology? no, she just knows everything by heart unlike all these other stupid people who have to study the subject). It drives me absolutely insane when she doesn't care at all about topics like famine and war, and then, out of the blue, she says something so out of pocket along the lines of: "Did you know children starve in Africa?" as if I am some NPC that has never had a thought before. How do you react/used to react to this transcendental bullshit?