• Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Gonna spend the rest of my life knowing I’m surrounded by fucking morons. And I’m not some genius. I had a typical public education. I guess the difference is I actually paid attention.

    Yep, I’m smart enough to know I’m not that smart. But I can at least look around me and go “This isn’t normal, right?”

    It’s a weird fucking curse to have. Smarter than the average American due to the decades of under-funding the education system. I know how to use a computer more than boomers and younger people stuck using machines locked down by corporations.

    Ask me to do a math question higher than high school level? I’m going to flounder. You ask me who was president in 1890 without looking it up, I probably know it. And I know that’s not exactly a flex, it’s probably overall better to know more advanced math than trivia, but it’s just how my brain works.

    And yet I’m still smarter than Trump and his cultists.