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Halloween costume meme, labelled “Former Gifted Child”. The package is empty, and on it there is written:

"Nothing included

When people ask, “What are you supposed to be?”

just reply, “I was supposed to be a lot of things.”

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In my experience, the most driven, most successful people, at least in western culture, tend to be vacant idiots that never question or consider their impulses or actions. Ready, fire, aim people are rewarded over careful planners.

    “Gifted” people tend to be cursed to overconsider their own actions, often to the point of indolence, all the while being expected to respect and appreciate our backwater, superstitious civilization controlled by obvious con-artists manipulating that superstition, altering the language to embed their con into the culture(ex: greedy fuck businessman = “rationally self-interested job creator”), etc, all to aquire more power and wealth, because it’s never enough. Our leaders have no grand intellectual vision or endgame, just “give me more!”

    Possessing great intellect in this civilization is more curse than blessing. You know better, but are hopelessly outnumbered by selfish animals far more concerned with getting more than their fellow humans than maximizing happiness for the species and homeostasis for our sole, shared habitat.

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      It’s good to see that people are up voting this. All this talk of hidden societies pulling the strings is completely asinine. Most humans aren’t smart enough to pull off an illuminati heist. And the few that could will never have the resources to do so. It’s way more simple than all that. Deep down we are just run by our core animal instincts. So you can breathe easy knowing the world domination isn’t currently happening. Just a bunch of stupid monkeys playing with fire while the house around them burns down.

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      1 year ago

      it’s survivorship bias, the impulsive ones could just as easily been born less privileged and just make everyone around them miserable.