You’re kinda right, but it’s still related. It’s like we’re this very specialized group who drifts away from the concerns of the mainstream more and more, developing our slang and lingo and environment… which wouldn’t be different from any other group such as rock geeks or art fandoms or the like… except our focus of geekery is the improvement of the human mind. This makes communicating with defenctive people complicated, because they don’t know they’re thinking wrong, they’ll confuse your cleverness for insanity, and your attempts to help them for arrogance. It’s like when you know yoga and talk about it to people and they go “Are you going to teach me how to breathe?” I’ve had places were I’ve delcared myself a lesswronger, and where I was told my company was welcome as long as I didn’t try to teach them how to think.
And that’s just people in general. But there’s that subset of people, the normal-normal people, people without dreams, without ambition, without curiosity, without any motivation besides making it to the next month. Talking with those people frustrates me enough as it is, and I fear the company of intelligent, ambitious, witty people such as the ones found here is not going to help assuage that.
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You’re kinda right, but it’s still related. It’s like we’re this very specialized group who drifts away from the concerns of the mainstream more and more, developing our slang and lingo and environment… which wouldn’t be different from any other group such as rock geeks or art fandoms or the like… except our focus of geekery is the improvement of the human mind. This makes communicating with defenctive people complicated, because they don’t know they’re thinking wrong, they’ll confuse your cleverness for insanity, and your attempts to help them for arrogance. It’s like when you know yoga and talk about it to people and they go “Are you going to teach me how to breathe?” I’ve had places were I’ve delcared myself a lesswronger, and where I was told my company was welcome as long as I didn’t try to teach them how to think.
And that’s just people in general. But there’s that subset of people, the normal-normal people, people without dreams, without ambition, without curiosity, without any motivation besides making it to the next month. Talking with those people frustrates me enough as it is, and I fear the company of intelligent, ambitious, witty people such as the ones found here is not going to help assuage that.
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