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Yeah, when I talk as I normally do to people they don't understand me so I need to get on their level most of the time and that pisses me off because it really doesn't take much effort to have a decent vocabulary and a basic understanding of how the world works so I end up being bitter, misanthropic and sarcastic nearly all of the time.
80% of my life I feel like wherever I go I'm talking to stubborn, self-important children who think anything they don't understand cannot exist.
And it's been that way for more than 4 decades now, so yeah, I talk down to people a lot because most of the time that's all you understand.
You have to respect that people are smart in different ways. The human mind has to spend its time doing something.
Likely the people you meet have completely tangential interests to yours and so you don't notice their intelligence, but there will always be a topic that someone else is expert in to which you are a novice in.
The key is to bridge those small interest overlaps by finding a common vocabulary that you can use as a basis for examples. If you truly understand a topic, you should be able to create digestible examples for it.
Refusing to compromise on this is more a sign of immaturity and insecurity, than a consolidation of your intellect.
Yes, Drumpf is an idiot for everything except manipulating people. Should I 'respect' his ability to literally get away consequence free with *Gestures wildly at EVERYTHING*
No, most people are idiots through and through, some people have self-improving interests and hobbies that gives them greater breadth of though, but I'd argue that's less than 20% of the population.
Most people have a calcified worldview built from things their families and friends tell them with very little self-examination that they are STUBBORNLY resistant to shedding, and will ghost family instead of addressing their internal conflicts.
Look I get you have a positive view of humanity and at one point so did I but I cannot stress to you the importance of the fact that 60-70% of the population are basically just children that refuse to leave the Concrete Operational mode.
Not to mention all the people who are wrong on the internet who need to be told exactly how they're wrong... I feel ya mate...
Also, fractions are easy as, and the cake analogy is nothing like the burger analogy.
If people took half as much interest in basic arythmatics as they do in tone-policing and what their peers are wearing they might actually know when they are underpaid or overcharged.