6 replies \ @k00b OP 27 Feb \ on: How to Be Dumb mostly_harmless
Disclaimer: I've been told I write in an authoritative tone, but if I had to guess it's because I suck at writing and take for granted that I'm not an authority. If it helps to hear I think I'm an idiot, I think I'm an idiot. Everything I say is literally made up from whatever odd things are laying around in my brain and it's plausible 100% of what I think is wrong. I share it because I think I might at least be wrong in an interesting way.
I think smart people have an understandable tendency to misclassify some forms of non-reason as dumb and amputate them because they are brilliant, skillful appliers of reason and reason is the ultimate human faculty. And I think that sucks.
Your writing has a certain pleasant poetry to it.
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That's sweet, thanks. My vocabulary is unavailable most of the time so I'm forced to use metaphors more than average. I hope if/when I get better at writing, I don't lose that. They can be expensive to come up with and I'm not sure I'd pay the price if I had an alternative.
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You into philosophy, Koob? Starting to sound a touch Socratic over there.
"I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know."
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