The Problem with Being Smart

the problem with being smart is that you have to try to operate in a world full of idiots. its really hard to communicate with idiots when you are smart. ordinary conversation i guess you can sort of get away with, but when idiots try to argue with you, its just friggin impossible.

Im going to put another book on my list of books to write, after my textbook on social change:

Arguing with Idiots for Dummies

im really dumb at arguing with idiots. i think the book will help me a lot.

do you get what i mean? when some idiot is trying to argue with you but what they are saying just does not make sense. how do you argue with that? Let me give you an example.

hmmm thinking of an idiots argument...

Smart person:     you told me that the sky is orange, it isnt orange, its blue right now
Idiot                    the sky is orange because i like oranges and i like the sky

Smart person:      just because you like oranges, doesnt mean that the sky is orange
Idiot                    but the sky is orange because i like oranges and i like the sky

Smart person:     why do you like oranges
Idiot                    i like oranges because they remind me of the sky

Smart person:      why do you like the sky
Idiot                     i like the sky because it is orange and i like oranges

Smart person:      do you like the sky right now? because i think its blue
Idiot:                    the sky is not blue, it is orange because i like oranges and i like the sky

Smart person:      well what do other people say about it?
Idiot:                    everyone knows that the sky is orange because everyone likes oranges and the sky.

Smart person:      then put it this way, how can you be sure oranges are orange, how do you know
                            oranges arent, say, blue
Idiot                     everyone knows that oranges are orange - pfft, idiot!