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[–] HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 13 points 1 year ago

Is there a lemmy equivalent to iamverysmart?

[–] Coldus12@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tbh most people (myself included) are stupid in at least one aspect.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know how people say there are different types of intelligence?

Then there must also be different types of stupidity.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, and in the same way most people are intelligent in at least one thing.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do think I'm on the stupid side actually.