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it's like someone who can get a perfect 100% on every single test you throw at them but is always useless in a real life scenario that isn't gamified into something they're comfortable with. they SEEM to understand everything.

i suspect this stems from a partially correct understanding that reality IS interesting. thus by maximizing interestingness you DO get closer to reality rather than disconnecting from it however it ignores how "you" are also part of realityhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1349454307939127297?s=20 …

by being someone who is always "trying" to be interesting you define yourself as someone who is NOT interesting and thus splice off (a fairly important!) part of reality(yourself) as "not interesting"

so while the interesting addicts look down at the losers as "warm fuzzy" addicts while imagining that they themselves have transcended to a virtuous form of sociopathy, perhaps they are just trapped just the same as michael scott. the traps are just far more complex.

the interiority of cluelessness for e.g. doesn't feel all that bad. it feels like BEING ENTERTAINED all the time. it's like advanced michael scott scoffing at basic michael scott "lol he thinks game of thrones references are funny but i use rick & morty references"

"you shouldn't be entertained b/c what i know is MORE entertaining, thus you are clueless while i understand the truer reality because of my more sophisticated understanding of what entertainment is"

what the clueless don't see is the majority doesn't care about interestingness. it is a specific cope that only works in specific circumstances in specific environments. proper integration into social reality requires the ability to savor warm fuzzieshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416?s=20 …

however they are unwilling to fully step into the will-to-power realm of sociopathy and so sorta half ass it by creating an enlightened realm of cluelessness that passes for a redefinition of Enlightenment with a capital E.