Or maybe I always was, but just lately I’ve noticed it taking a really ugly turn, like where I’ll be sitting some place listening to someone give directions and I’ll think “I can’t believe I have to sit here wasting my time listening to this stupid person.” or I’ll have to do something for work and I’ll be talking to a vendor and all of a sudden it’ll just pop into my head, “Oh, well, this person is stupid,” and I…
I mean, I know in the grand scheme of things, this is a–funnily enough–stupid thing to be concerned about, but the second I become assured that someone is stupid, I feel like they’re wasting my time. And, if I feel like they refuse to understand that they are stupidly wasting my time, I get angry that they’re imposing their stupidity on me.
It’s obnoxious.
Especially because I am not the smartest person in the room (unless I’m the only person in the room, and then the opposite is true, too). I don’t have the most book-learning of anyone and I was pretty much raised in a hermetically sealed tube, so I don’t have much life experience, really.
I have nothing upon which to base this belief that there are stupid people, of which I am not one, whose interactions with me are an insult to me.
And yet it’s there, insidious, this little voice, that I’m not sure how to squash.
I wouldn’t even bring it up, except that it’s kind of escalated into real stupidity. Yesterday, I had to do something that was at the far end of my ability to do it. It was, in face, almost too hard for me to do. And I caught myself, like some petulant sixteen year old, thinking “This is stupid, and fuck them for making me do it.”
You see what I’m saying? How this went from an annoying personality quirk to a means of self-delusion?
I don’t know. It took me a back a little bit.
I’m just sitting here thinking about this. I think all of us have dumbass shit we carry around with us, so I’m not that surprised by the fact that when I draw my “us” and “them” line, it’s between us smart people and those stupid people. I’m annoyed by how, even though I believe that making those kinds of distinctions is a waste of energy, I still make them–I still want to drop people into slots and treat them on the basis of the slot they drop into and not on the basis of who they are as a person.
But I’m pissed at myself and grossed out to realize that I’m using those distinctions to excuse my own shortcomings. I cannot do this because stupid people gave me the task to do and therefore it makes no sense.
I don’t like it. It’s obnoxious and mean and petty.j
And I’m embarrassed to even admit it to you.
Filed under: Stories About Me, Things I Hate
I think everyone in this world have nowadays become a lot more prejudiced against stupid people, so as to say in other words people having a low IQ. It is kind of ironic when you see that in this modern world where we have hundreds of laws against racism, castism, sexism etc, we have none to protect people who are low in IQ, instead political systems especially the left feel that there is no such thing as stupid-it is simply not viable and the right accept that they exist but then to go on and ignore them and wish they would go away……….it is terrible because a lot of people a lot a lot a lot, face this prejudice when they are in school, when they move to college and face it all their life……..some brand them of as losers, good for nothing etc and in this technology driven advanced world which is moving at a very fast pace, they find themselves out, they are stuck with mediocre jobs mediocre mates and thus mediocre and frustrated lifes, with actually no fault of their own…..we have always mocked them but it seems to me that the vitriol directed at the not-very-bright is a nastier and more powerful
concoction today than it has ever been.
They exist in a society which not only derides
them but which places a series of hurdles in their way deliberately
designed so that they will fail. This is manifestly unfair.
When is somebody going to do something about it?
I believe the same. However, I’m just prejudice against the ones who don’t realize or admit that they are stupid.
For Example: We live in the country, and our neighbors come up every summer for a bit. They–quite frankly–have an IQ equivilent . The dad ran into one of our waterpipe access points, and the thing blew sky-high. He didn’t admit to being an idiot, instead he just told us that our pipe is broken.
We also have a water shed to pump the water out of our well, and he was allowed access to the power in the shed. He, being a complete idiot, left the door on it open. It isn’t visible from our house, so when winter hit we didn’t know of its vulnerability. The damage was equivalent of $5,000. We knew it was him because the extension cord he used was still connected to the power in the shed. We couldn’t exactly prove it was him, but it couldn’t have been anyone else.
Some other things that angered me:
They shot our dogs with bb guns. They’re the most docile dogs you’ll ever meet, and just for fun the neighbor’s kids would shot them.
People like that should be removed from the gene pool.