• HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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”.

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        1 year ago

        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.