Humans seem to have a special characteristic trait which I notice again and again but of which I am not sure if it helps humankind to survive or why exactly nature created it. Why is it that everybody seems to think the people around him are at least a little bit stupid?
Teachers think their students are stupid while the students believe they themselves are clever and their teachers are stupid. Employers think their employees are stupid and their employees themselves believe that their employers are stupid. You can even see it in children! Their parents think – in a loving way – that their children are still stupid, they need to learn but look at that child and how it looks at the parent who just told him off for not listening or for running across the street. Don’t you think that child has a thought in its mind ‘I saw that car and I know it was still very far away…’. Everybody believes he knows everything and everything better. So tell me, does nature want to save us from our own stupidity by convincing us that we are the most clever ones on earth?
I remember a joke related to this topic:
Two business men who both run their own companies have a talk. One of them says ‘Oh, my employees are just stupid! And most of all my personal assistant! Wait, I will show it to you!’ He calls his assistant into the room, hands him a ten-dollar note and says ‘Go and buy a red Mercedes from the car dealer down the road.’ The assistant takes the money and leaves. ‘You see, he did not even object, he thinks he can buy a Mercedes in ten Dollar!’
They both laugh but then the second business man says ‘This is nothing compared to my assistant!’ He calls him and gives his order ‘Go to my home and ask my wife if I am home already.’ ‘Yes Sir,’ the assistant says and leaves. ‘You see, I am sitting here but he will go and ask my wife if I am there!’ the business man laughs.
Down on the street, the two assistants meet. The first one shows his ten-Dollar note and says ‘See, I told you my boss is stupid! He thinks I could buy him a Mercedes in 10 Dollar!’ The other one objects ‘But have a look at my boss! He is sitting in there and I have to run to his wife to ask if he is there! Really, doesn’t he see, there is a phone on the table, just call her and ask!’
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I think this is a very good question for me to ask myself each time I am feeling as though someone around me is foolish and simply cannot do things as well as i can. Why do I think they are stupid? Whether or not they process information differently than I do is not the question. Why do “I” need to think that they are stupid. Great entry. I will adopt this as a practice.
“Hell is other people” -Jean-Paul Sartre:He was describing a feeling that many people experience to some degree or another at some moment in time or maybe perpetually and that alone helps me understand that this thought is not a reflection of reality. If someone thinks that it is “hell” to be in your presence you probably sense (in some way) that this is because of what is going on in their own mind. You may find yourself saying “They just don’t understand me,” or something like that. Why not make it heaven.
Great photo!
One word for this phenomenon: ego. Everyone’s egos want to believe that they are so smart…they could never be wrong! It’s OTHER people who are stupid! Haha. That’s why it’s good to stay humble because, one day, after thinking that everyone else is an idiot, you actually realize that you did something stupid! It can hurt your ego, but you just have to laugh it off and stay humble.
Many people are to deep in their own world, so they are not able to go beyond their borders and enter the worlds of others. Maybe it’s because of fear or maybe it is just some kind of inability. Before we start to think who could be stupid around us, we should at first recognize, that we’re also carrying a little bit of stupidness with us 😉
Hahaha, this is also too funny! I know that in reality people by themselves are smart individuals but as soon as it comes to group thinking, most of time people then become rather silly and make poor choices…but no one in the group stops to think…hey I can leave and do my own thing, no they stay and together the group continues to make dumb choices, but I guess they’re at least making dumb choices together!