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⌈ Secret Post #3179 ⌋

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[Rupaul's Drag Race season 7]

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By not thinking everyone around me is dumb. There are different kind of smarts. I'm really, really not practically smart or street smart or smart in relation to things like arts and sports. So there is always something I can learn from anyone. And thinking otherwise makes you pretentious and kind of a jerk.

this this this. as the smart kid who got bullied, and ended up hating most people for being "dumb" i learnt i was being a shit myself, and recognising people's worth as something over than what *i* in my arrogance called smart or dumb.

nayrt

What if you're surrounded by people who think climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese to render US industry uncompetitive, the Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves by being Communists, and Satan himself inspired Darwin's Origin of Species...but no jokes in front of them about chemtrails, please and thank you! Are you supposed to look for hidden wisdom and a different kind of intelligence in what they're saying, or can you just write them off as dumber than a bag of hair?

That sorta depends. Are they someone, like a random stranger on the internet, that you can write off without any consequence? Then write them off. But some of us have families with members just like that. They usually also are smart in some other area, even if their picture should appear in the dictionary next to "gullible" when it comes to conspiracy theories. Like, hey, maybe that annoying uncle is a really good woodworker. That's a skill that takes a lot of practice and work to develop. Maybe that grandma is an excellent cook, or maybe when she was a young woman, she did some really cool things in the 60s. (I found out through an aunt that my Mom went to Woodstock... and most people think of her as pretty conservative!)

They can be smart, just in different ways and areas. Personally, I use this technique to help defuse family get-togethers with people who really have wildly different ideas of politics and who believe in conspiracy theories. If you aren't interested in what they possibly have to teach, well, it might be boring... but if you can't cut off family contact, or don't want to because doing so would mean you'd get rid of 1 annoying person but a lot of people you don't want to, then it can be good to look at it from a different angle. I'd much rather hear about my uncle's ongoing boring as fuck genealogy projects (genealogy is fascinating but my uncle focuses on place of origin, birth date, death date, who married who and when, facts like that, and that's about it; I have no idea what any of our ancestors actually did, and neither does he, because he didn't care about that part!) than his conspiracy theories or whining about how his niche business didn't make him millions. *rolls eyes*

Not related but just wanted to say love the new, glam icon, nonny. Very classy :)

Aw, thank you! :)

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