Justification for Smartness

[Thyunda]

Why justify it?

Anybody who does not take pleasure in knowledge for knowledge's sake is not worth trying to educate.
There is an entire world of wonder out there, of useless trivia and revelatory beauty.
If you have no interest in that then you can fuck right off accomplishing nothing for the rest of your life.

I can't let that happen to somebody when I have the power to stop it. Especially not my own cousin. We're not a close family, but we do look out for each other. I really don't want him to make a mess of things. I understand people not getting as fascinated as I do, but I can't understand why anybody would deliberately shut it out.

 

[Trolldor]

Why justify it?

Anybody who does not take pleasure in knowledge for knowledge's sake is not worth trying to educate.
There is an entire world of wonder out there, of useless trivia and revelatory beauty.
If you have no interest in that then you can fuck right off accomplishing nothing for the rest of your life.

I can't let that happen to somebody when I have the power to stop it. Especially not my own cousin. We're not a close family, but we do look out for each other. I really don't want him to make a mess of things. I understand people not getting as fascinated as I do, but I can't understand why anybody would deliberately shut it out.

You won't get him interested in something he has no interest in.
If he's big on music, approach him through music. Talk to him about bands from different regions if they play in the genre he likes.

 

[richd213]

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[Thyunda]

Why justify it?

Anybody who does not take pleasure in knowledge for knowledge's sake is not worth trying to educate.
There is an entire world of wonder out there, of useless trivia and revelatory beauty.
If you have no interest in that then you can fuck right off accomplishing nothing for the rest of your life.

I can't let that happen to somebody when I have the power to stop it. Especially not my own cousin. We're not a close family, but we do look out for each other. I really don't want him to make a mess of things. I understand people not getting as fascinated as I do, but I can't understand why anybody would deliberately shut it out.

You won't get him interested in something he has no interest in.
If he's big on music, approach him through music. Talk to him about bands from different regions if they play in the genre he likes.

I think the popular music right now is pretty much dominated by the United States...and he already sees the US as the Timbuktu of the entertainment industry. I'd rather not reinforce the notion that the metaphorical city of gold is all that matters in the music industry.

 

[Thyunda]

Yeah, but that's what agents are for, right? Or..perhaps...'nerdy' cousins who just happen to look like a freaking genius compared to you.

That doesnt always work, look at lady gaga. Im sure she has some really intelligent agents but that didnt stop her from going bankrupt.

Lady GaGa went bankrupt? Oh. That sucks. I like Lady GaGa.

 

[GrimHeaper]

Yeah, but that's what agents are for, right? Or..perhaps...'nerdy' cousins who just happen to look like a freaking genius compared to you.

That doesnt always work, look at lady gaga. Im sure she has some really intelligent agents but that didnt stop her from going bankrupt.

Lady GaGa went bankrupt? Oh. That sucks. I like Lady GaGa.

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Now, most of us are probably thinking, "Why the hell do I have to justify being smart?"

Well, I'm sure we've all come up against that knowledge barrier. You know the one. "I don't care about geography, so why would I have to know that Europe isn't a country?"
So how would you justify spreading this knowledge? Why would that stupid blonde whose only desire is to become a fashion model actually need to know any of this stuff?
I ask because I'm desperate. My cousin thinks he's a musician, and he auto-tunes the shit out of his music. He is going nowhere. And yet, he still neglects common knowledge. For obvious reasons, this is bad. Anybody that has been to both France and America, and yet thinks Paris in in Florida, clearly has problems.
I want him to at least gain a bit of worldly knowledge...just so he still has a fighting chance at real life. But, he is set on pop music, and has literally no interest in learning anything. He's a year younger than me. I finished school three years ago. He's still in the year before last.

So, the discussion here: What examples of stupid have you experienced, and how do you go about justifying the fact that stupidity is bad?

Sounds like a pseudo intellectual to me.
Pimp slap him with your mind till he has no choice, but to see his own flaw.

 

[Jegsimmons]

so i dont become frustrated enough to strangle your dumbass.

thats my justification.

 

[norwegian-guy]

Knowledge should be desired for the sake of knowledge. To shun knowledge on the argument that one does not need it is as foolish as it gets.

 

[Thyunda]

so i dont become frustrated enough to strangle your dumbass.

thats my justification.

That's a great way to make myself come across as a well-reasoned and mentally stable human being.

Knowledge should be desired for the sake of knowledge. To shun knowledge on the argument that one does not need it is as foolish as it gets.

Now see? That's exactly how I feel. Got me called a nerd a lot in high school...and the good grades I got out of it and college have left me unemployed for a whole year, but y'know what? I don't care. Learning was just too much damn fun.

 

[Popadoo]

Let natural selection take it's course. If we keep sticking up for people like this, they're going to keep coming. I say let them be idiots and if they don't turn their lives around they wont be heard from again, will they?

 

[Thyunda]

Let natural selection take it's course. If we keep sticking up for people like this, they're going to keep coming. I say let them be idiots and if they don't turn their lives around they wont be heard from again, will they?

Cousin. As in relative. As in somebody I'm supposed to look out for.