There's a humility attached to this type of feeling. Most feelings of being wrong aren't true defeats. There's more anger attached to the feeling. It feels like losing a battle, but with further plans to eventually win the war.
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Without that space, you can't walk away anymore. For the person who didn't need math in their life, they suddenly feel stupid and fearful now that every job requires math.
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They could be a music, or art prodigy. They could be a farm who intuitively selectively breeds crops for great yield. But in our world of today. They need to know 'useless' things and squint at small pixels on a glowing screen to survive.
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What 2 + 2 = 5 is saying is ... "This thing that you tell me is necessary for my life is not necessary. Not 'real'. See, I'm alive. You can't deny my existence can you?"
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This is the catch-22 of 'oppressed' people. A stupid person isn't going to know how to not be stupid because that's precisely why they're stupid. If they knew how to not be stupid, they wouldn't be stupid.
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Saying "Hey, follow these specific steps to not be stupid anymore. Read these books." completely fails to understand stupidity. If they could read those books, if they could follow your advice, they wouldn't be stupid.
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I don't mean stupid derogatorily here btw. I mean it to mean "worthless to the eyes of the system.". Most people will feel smart and stupid as they move through different life environments.
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People who had perfectly happy and meaningful lives now have horrible lives where they fuck up everything at work (and so fucking up their life) and have no other choice. Their skills are useless b/c society now values something else.
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"Wow, Grandma here has "Patience" and "Endless Love"" "Sorry, but this is a menial data entry job squinting at a screen on a bad chair paying minimum wage. You might want to look for something you're more qualified for."
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Watching old people you care about get fucked up by technology is a good signal to stick in a few more control rods to your nuclear reactor of "innovation" Watching your friends get fucked up into depression... less so. After all, they all seem so Happy on instagram and facebook
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"How is grandma btw? I've been working at this tech job for 10 years and haven't kept in touch. I wonder if she's doing well. If her life has changed. Eh, I'll do it later. Gotta adjust this recommendation algorithm."
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A society grows weak when its stupid people don't know how to accept defeat. It thinks that accepting defeat is weakness rather than the path to power that it really is.
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Give stupid people space. Or you force them to deal with each other. The non-architects are gonna be forced to build skyscrapers.
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Realize that you'll be stupid in the eyes of society some day. Realize that many people have already thought you stupid and there's nothing you can do about it. You can't redeem yourself by being say more moral without re-starting a war.
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Are you clutching a cease fire to your heart? Following the terms laid out in a passive aggressive manner, taking advantage of every loop hole? Living in a way that is burning out your soul? Realize that you can end the war any time.
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Maybe you're "Right", but you need the other to acknowledge defeat. Are you sure you can't just declare victory and walk away? Maybe you're "Wrong". Can you accept that and end the war? Or do you need to draw it out to win the bigger war?
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Truly accepting defeat doesn't feel like bending over to an "enemy" and saying "Go ahead." Truly accepting defeat feels like "Huh.. this new way of seeing things make previous me feel kinda stupid and insane. I'm thankful."
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