Yeah… I find them to be somewhat rare in the wild, but I have met them a few times and I am always so severely secondhand-embarrassed for them that their cringe haunts me almost as much as my own cringe years later.
And I mean, I’m not talking about 20somethings acting cocky and like they know everything like some tend to do becuase that shit is just normal developmental stuff and I don’t mind that. We have all been there.
It’s when real adults act like attention starved, insecure dummies hiding behind fake confidence that I just crumble inside.
Once had a mid 30s guy talk about basic bitch life philosophy in a way like he was almost orgasming at his own brilliance and everybody around the table were so embarrassed for him. I don’t remember what he was talking about, but like… some very basic shit and he kept acting like we were all too stupid to have had these thoughts ourselves. Probably it was something he had only just realized himself. And look, I get it! It’s kinda awesome when some life-wisdom and philosophy-bah blah finally clicks for real in your head as you get older, but because of that guy I have since been scared of sharing any such revelations with anyone becuase I cannot bear the thought of ending up being the dumbest person in the room while I’m high on an epiphany that is nothing special to everybody else. Omg, I can’t even think it without squirming.
I still think about that moment with the guy sometimes at night when I am going to sleep and one would think it would be a relief to force-think about cringe shit someone other than one self has done, but no. No it is isn’t. It is just pain.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to be close to Elon as a family member or a friend. I would have fucking nightly panic attacks over the newest dumb shit he’s done and feel embarrassed that he’s my family member or friend. Like what does that say about me that I have a person like that in my life, right?
I have enough of my own lifelong cringe to carry. I can’t carry other people’s cringe too, man.
Oh man I would have loved to be in that conversation. Instead of cringing, you start walking them through some of the more advanced corollaries that proceed from that one realization. Keep going until you break them. At that point, you can start having actual interesting conversations with them.
I would have gladly left the floor to you xD personally I’m not gifted at debating. The only time I decided to push back when this guy went on his pseudo philosophical monologues was when he started talking about the Jewish question. It wasn’t very fruitful. I tried to make him understand where he was heading “intellectually” and he told me I was too small minded to think outside the box. We stopped talking eventually. He was one of the biggest tools I have met in my adult life.
He must really think we are all as dumb as he is.
There’s a certain kind of ‘smart’ person that thinks everyone else is stupider than them.
Not smart enough to know that there’s a ton of shit they don’t know yet.
Yeah… I find them to be somewhat rare in the wild, but I have met them a few times and I am always so severely secondhand-embarrassed for them that their cringe haunts me almost as much as my own cringe years later.
And I mean, I’m not talking about 20somethings acting cocky and like they know everything like some tend to do becuase that shit is just normal developmental stuff and I don’t mind that. We have all been there.
It’s when real adults act like attention starved, insecure dummies hiding behind fake confidence that I just crumble inside.
Once had a mid 30s guy talk about basic bitch life philosophy in a way like he was almost orgasming at his own brilliance and everybody around the table were so embarrassed for him. I don’t remember what he was talking about, but like… some very basic shit and he kept acting like we were all too stupid to have had these thoughts ourselves. Probably it was something he had only just realized himself. And look, I get it! It’s kinda awesome when some life-wisdom and philosophy-bah blah finally clicks for real in your head as you get older, but because of that guy I have since been scared of sharing any such revelations with anyone becuase I cannot bear the thought of ending up being the dumbest person in the room while I’m high on an epiphany that is nothing special to everybody else. Omg, I can’t even think it without squirming.
I still think about that moment with the guy sometimes at night when I am going to sleep and one would think it would be a relief to force-think about cringe shit someone other than one self has done, but no. No it is isn’t. It is just pain.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to be close to Elon as a family member or a friend. I would have fucking nightly panic attacks over the newest dumb shit he’s done and feel embarrassed that he’s my family member or friend. Like what does that say about me that I have a person like that in my life, right?
I have enough of my own lifelong cringe to carry. I can’t carry other people’s cringe too, man.
Oh man I would have loved to be in that conversation. Instead of cringing, you start walking them through some of the more advanced corollaries that proceed from that one realization. Keep going until you break them. At that point, you can start having actual interesting conversations with them.
I would have gladly left the floor to you xD personally I’m not gifted at debating. The only time I decided to push back when this guy went on his pseudo philosophical monologues was when he started talking about the Jewish question. It wasn’t very fruitful. I tried to make him understand where he was heading “intellectually” and he told me I was too small minded to think outside the box. We stopped talking eventually. He was one of the biggest tools I have met in my adult life.