I am constantly having a similar thought. I’m a student and not a single thing I do is good enough. I’ve gotten honors and awards every semester, I get good grades, but not without professors tearing apart my papers with petty criticisms, not infrequently contradicting their own instructions. And then I think about what George Carlin said, or a paraphrase of it, “think about the stupidest person you know. Most people are even more stupid than that” or some such, and I’m just like ??
Intelligence is becoming a fucking rarity in the US, but because of that it’s almost becoming a form of deviance that everyone is afraid of, questions, or dislikes. Or all of those.
I am constantly having a similar thought. I’m a student and not a single thing I do is good enough. I’ve gotten honors and awards every semester, I get good grades, but not without professors tearing apart my papers with petty criticisms, not infrequently contradicting their own instructions. And then I think about what George Carlin said, or a paraphrase of it, “think about the stupidest person you know. Most people are even more stupid than that” or some such, and I’m just like ??
Intelligence is becoming a fucking rarity in the US, but because of that it’s almost becoming a form of deviance that everyone is afraid of, questions, or dislikes. Or all of those.
Is there a lemmy equivalent to iamverysmart?
I think its something like “think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of people are even more stupid than that”.
The brilliance of that joke is that everyone, no matter who you tell it to, everyone always laughs.
Nobody wants to think they’re on the stupid side.
tbh most people (myself included) are stupid in at least one aspect.
You know how people say there are different types of intelligence?
Then there must also be different types of stupidity.
Agreed, and in the same way most people are intelligent in at least one thing.
I do think I’m on the stupid side actually.