A world full of stupid people

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I remember being *16* and taking a college course with adults, and they near drove me insane, because they accepted ideas about the world that were faulty without thinking about them, then parroted them at me when I showed signs of difference. If I pointed out why they were irrational, they just argued from emotion some more. And then, of course, there was the fact that my ideas and arguments were effectively null and void anyway because I was young. Even if an adult was arguing from emotion and talking crap, and I was presenting a reasoned explanation of why I disagreed, I was automatically decided to be wrong, because of my age. Apparently, life experience trumps everything else - even if you learn nothing from it.

Over time, as I've learned the names of more and more Fallacies, I have come to have a feeling in this culture of being surrounded by idiots.

This is no mere feeling of superiority, but a genuine disgust and at times rage in moments when I'm overwhelmed by the fallacies of others. It's worst when they team up on you, as in their smug satisfaction with 'having friends' they don't seem to mind how many fallacies they commit. This makes an utterly contemptible impression on me, and at times even a terrifying one as I feel forced to avoid remaining silent, lest I be attacked by... the stupid people.

This orgy of fallacies, insults, and finger-pointing gets so bad that I wonder how some autistic people feel deep in their hearts when they are less able to communicate. Do they know about the stupid people the way I do?

At times I feel like I have to chop my way through a spiked vine forest of fallacies. They scapegoat. They presume intentions and causal connections. They denounce possibilities and follow the mentality of their 'herd' in blind faith. They generalize, shift motives, make connections, and straw man you, not even giving courtesy to who you are.

So at times I just say things to myself like, "I know there are many possible explanations, and one of them is that someone's plotting against me. Now, an idiot might come along and tell me I'm delusional, but being stupid, he wouldn't realize that having a delusion isn't the same as acknowledging a possibility," and, "What the idiots who need to have their***********d off don't understand is that ugly people have feelings." Sometimes I can't take it anymore! They're all just so stupid! The stupid people! The stupid people!

So why do I actually call them stupid? I have come to believe -- and don't get me wrong -- but I really have come to believe that this judgment has been shoved down my throat. While I know it's an opinionated judgment -- after all, measurements are relative, so who's to say who's stupid and who's not? -- it just seems to be my recourse to pride and humorous self-respect when I begin having auditory hallucinations. To repeat, these auditory hallucinations say things like,

"You're a freak, Charlie Brown!"
"There's a reason for that, Scott Hoagie Sandwich!"
"You're a painful person!"
"Eyyaaaaasperger's Syndrome," and even,
"Psychopaaaath."

It's unbearable. It's a load of hogwash that serves no purpose when I'm not being punished and represents the feeble-minded attitudes of kids who have long since grown up. So I'm just kind of lured into saying... "The stupid people."

I really apologize. I wish I could be a better student of relativity.

Maybe if we had fewer Machiavellian leeches, heartless macho-wannabes, hypocritical Happy Bunnies, dominant ape-men with no compassion for the suffering, Christian torturers, law enforcement bullies, people who shout "GET OFF THE ROOOOOAD!" as they drive by you on the sidewalk, people who are too afraid to stick up for the lone victim and instead join in, taboo terrorists who shout "Ewww, it's a SNAKE! It's a SNAKE!"; closed-minded competition-obsessed sadists who believe that the meaning of life is to make fun of losers, people who think that 'competition' is some kind of miracle word that solves every problem known to man, greedy doctors who bully their patients, people who refuse to admit when they're wrong and keep peddling the same old persecutions long after they've been challenged, fallacy-committing 'dudes' who hide behind their dull-minded crowds, people who perform acts of cruelty 'because they can,' people who ruin lives on purpose, idiots who read Nietzsche and then go out and torment people; aggressive, authoritarian dogs who think they can win your respect with negative reinforcement alone, people who give you nothing but losing options and shame you for all of them, deceivers, manipulators, people who pull your strings, white liars, Eric Cartmans, and Scut Farkuses in the world, I'd be less inclined to actually call people stupid.

So, every now and then, it slips out. "The stupid people." I hope you'll forgive me.

To help them.

It's the Matrix. I've been harping about it for a while. A huge tangle of social fictions. One superstition based on another and another, and around the fruit loop we go, never touching the ground at all.

In response to Marsian's comment, they may be the majority, but that doesn't mean the majority can't be flat-out wrong.

aspies are socially stupid too.

Another thing: by 'stupid people' I don't usually mean the mentally challenged, but people who bully in addition to using bad reasoning.

I'm starting to suspect that the primary motivation for most "boring/normals" is emotion, especially the emotion of fear.

What is normal? Who decides what's normal? What criteria defines normal?

Is it normal for a "normal" person to drink until they vomit time and time again?

Is it normal for a "normal" man to speak about women as if women are nothing more than "sexual objects"?

Is it normal for a "normal" woman to declare how she is not a perv and how she hates all the "perverted male pig-dogs", and then act like a perverted pig herself?

Is it normal for a "normal" person to speak about how they hate dishonesty, liars and backstabbers, then go on to lie and backstab others for absolutely no reason?

Is it normal for a "normal" person to speak about how people are all good and about how "lies", "masks" and "social games" make one a good person, then when confronted with the idea of a honest society scream in complete contradiction to themselves earlier that people are all bad?

What the flipping hell is "normal" about these people? These "normal" people are gigantic walking contradictions.

Edit: Sorry if my post is offensive LinnaeusCat, I just find the idea of "normality" strange, so-called "normal" people to me don't seem very "normal".

This is no mere feeling of superiority, but a genuine disgust and at times rage in moments when I'm overwhelmed by the fallacies of others. It's worst when they team up on you, as in their smug satisfaction with 'having friends' they don't seem to mind how many fallacies they commit. This makes an utterly contemptible impression on me, and at times even a terrifying one as I feel forced to avoid remaining silent, lest I be attacked by... the stupid people.

At times I feel like I have to chop my way through a spiked vine forest of fallacies. They scapegoat. They presume intentions and causal connections. They denounce possibilities and follow the mentality of their 'herd' in blind faith.

Maybe if we had fewer Machiavellian leeches, heartless macho-wannabes, hypocritical Happy Bunnies, dominant ape-men with no compassion for the suffering, Christian torturers, law enforcement bullies, people who shout "GET OFF THE ROOOOOAD!" as they drive by you on the sidewalk, people who are too afraid to stick up for the lone victim and instead join in, taboo terrorists who shout "Ewww, it's a SNAKE! It's a SNAKE!"; closed-minded competition-obsessed sadists who believe that the meaning of life is to make fun of losers, people who think that 'competition' is some kind of miracle word that solves every problem known to man, greedy doctors who bully their patients, people who refuse to admit when they're wrong and keep peddling the same old persecutions long after they've been challenged, fallacy-committing 'dudes' who hide behind their dull-minded crowds, people who perform acts of cruelty 'because they can,' people who ruin lives on purpose, idiots who read Nietzsche and then go out and torment people; aggressive, authoritarian dogs who think they can win your respect with negative reinforcement alone, people who give you nothing but losing options and shame you for all of them, deceivers, manipulators, people who pull your strings, white liars, Eric Cartmans, and Scut Farkuses in the world, I'd be less inclined to actually call people stupid.

How can you be real when you are following a script? When you question nothing? When you never learn from your mistakes (or the mistakes of others)? When you celebrate your addictions and brag how enslaved you are? (And mock those that aren't enslaved with phrases like "get a life" so you can be just like them)? When you do what "everyone" else does because that's the way it's "always" been done before?

How does humanity evolve for the better if so many of us are either playing follow the leader or are focused mindlessly on base, petty desires?