I am passionate about philosophy, art, psychology and history and I do not need a degree in order to know something about any of those subjects. Nobody needs a degree in order to know what they are talking about. Dismissing someone based on their qualifications is stupid. You should be looking at how into something someone is. Are they really passionate about the topic, are they spending their time on it? If you can find someone that really spends all of their time on something then you will have found yourself someone who knows what they are talking about.
Let's take being a good neighbor for instance. I don't know everything about being a good neighbor but I do know that if you welcome me to the neighborhood by complimenting the typography of my welcome mat and bring me a batch of freshly picked pairs, then you're probably a good neighbor. You might want something from me, but you won't get it, and we'll cross that road when we get to it. If you leave a pile of not so freshly picked pairs on my doorstep with a note written in crayon that says "welcum 2 the nayborhud" I'll just assume that you live in the dumpster down the street and that the pairs are only fresh from the trash. I do appreciate that you brought me the ones that haven't been bitten into. I'm still calling the cops though.
Let's take being a good neighbor for instance. I don't know everything about being a good neighbor but I do know that if you welcome me to the neighborhood by complimenting the typography of my welcome mat and bring me a batch of freshly picked pairs, then you're probably a good neighbor. You might want something from me, but you won't get it, and we'll cross that road when we get to it. If you leave a pile of not so freshly picked pairs on my doorstep with a note written in crayon that says "welcum 2 the nayborhud" I'll just assume that you live in the dumpster down the street and that the pairs are only fresh from the trash. I do appreciate that you brought me the ones that haven't been bitten into. I'm still calling the cops though.
I don't spend all of my time on art, philosophy, psychology and history, but I spend enough time on it that we could definitely have a conversation about it. There was some dumb broad talking down to me the other day about how if I hadn't earned my degree in psychology, then I shouldn't be talking about it like I had. What does that even mean? I wasn't putting on airs to try and seem smarter, I was just making conversation about something that I thought was interesting. It was the subject of automatic drawing. I only mentioned that some people find it therapeutic. Does that sound like some arrogant prick trying to make everyone feel dumber? I don't think so. I think this broad is probably just really insecure.
If she wanted to take me down a notch she should have pointed out the tear in the crotch of my work pants. Now inevitably, me being the well oiled (just sweaty) sex machine that I am, every woman at work is obviously always staring at my crotch. So I know that they all must know about that subtle tear. That would have been a proper taking down of my ego. To call my clothes ragged is to wake me up in high school when I had just fallen asleep in Algebra 2. It's an attack on my person and either way it won't make a difference if I'm conscious of my circumstances or not. I never understood algebra and I probably won't spend more money on work pants or sewing materials.
If she wanted to take me down a notch she should have pointed out the tear in the crotch of my work pants. Now inevitably, me being the well oiled (just sweaty) sex machine that I am, every woman at work is obviously always staring at my crotch. So I know that they all must know about that subtle tear. That would have been a proper taking down of my ego. To call my clothes ragged is to wake me up in high school when I had just fallen asleep in Algebra 2. It's an attack on my person and either way it won't make a difference if I'm conscious of my circumstances or not. I never understood algebra and I probably won't spend more money on work pants or sewing materials.
I'll be honest with you, I'm not smart enough to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I find it to be way too dense and not worth the effort of googling the meaning of a word every two words. But I can definitely understand Diogenes telling people to fuck off all night and day. I can laugh at him insisting on being a homeless, hopeless naked guy just beating off in his barrel somewhere in Athens. Some old nasty geezer lives right down the road from your apartment and he's rattling around in his barrel at about 6:39pm every evening. You sometimes forget to close the window so you end up hearing some of his sexual shit talking to himself. Sometimes the other neighbors yell at him and tell him to keep it down. He just makes sure to go nut on their welcome mat. Now that's the humanity that I have come to know and love. So I'm not some secretly super smart guy, I'm just a regular dude that takes to some pretty specific interests.
The chick that called me out and said that I was trying to seem like a sagely old man when really I'm nothing but a pleb seemed to put a lot of value into college education. As in, that's the thing that if you don't have it, then she'll look down on you. I love people that are self taught, that mastered something because they wanted too. Not because someone else told them to. Some of those people went to school and got college degrees, but even if you do go to school, you still have to be self taught or mentored in some way in order to learn enough to make a professional of yourself.
When I was a kid I was learning the difference between being responsible for the quality of work that you're doing and the rules around you. So when I would randomly walk out of class with no regard for the rules I was just saying that I know that my work is already stellar and that a second bathroom break was in order. I was also expressing the idea that this post is about. I don't need a teacher to tell me when I need to take a piss. He/She might be an expert in knowing when students should or should not take a piss, but I am an expert at knowing when I need to piss. I was mostly dicking around, walking around the school pretending like I was running an errand for a teacher. I still maintain that if my grades were good enough, then I should be more in charge of how my time is spent. It is after all, the only time that I'll ever have.
When I was a kid I was learning the difference between being responsible for the quality of work that you're doing and the rules around you. So when I would randomly walk out of class with no regard for the rules I was just saying that I know that my work is already stellar and that a second bathroom break was in order. I was also expressing the idea that this post is about. I don't need a teacher to tell me when I need to take a piss. He/She might be an expert in knowing when students should or should not take a piss, but I am an expert at knowing when I need to piss. I was mostly dicking around, walking around the school pretending like I was running an errand for a teacher. I still maintain that if my grades were good enough, then I should be more in charge of how my time is spent. It is after all, the only time that I'll ever have.
I'm attached emotionally to the idea of making something of yourself and being the one that is responsible for who you are. I think highly of the concept for it's own merits, but to be perfectly honest, it's not just a logical belief for me. I am invested in the idea to the point that there is no point in trying to debate me on it's merits. I believe in the individual to the extent that it's almost like a faith instead of a belief. Now I only have actual faith in actual God. But I do believe in and love the individual. I've always had a huge ego. I've always appreciated my work the most. I'm not a total narcissist or I wouldn't be aware of these aspects of myself, but I do have some narcissistic tendencies.
I know that I'm not perfect, I am thankfully confident. So when I was driving down the road with my friend a good number of years back and he asked if my jalopy of an old jeep usually smoked under the hood this much, I said "oh yea, does it all the time." Shortly thereafter I said "oh shit!" because the front end of the jeep caught on fire. I could have been hoping for my friend to help me, or a stranger to help me, but I didn't do any of that. I just used a fire extinguisher. I didn't have to hope and wait and believe and wish until the universe manifested a fire extinguisher in my jeep. I just put one in there with my hands, at an earlier date. I used money that I earned from mowing lawns to pay for the fire extinguisher. It's really as simple as all that. I don't see the point in consulting someone else when I know what I have: a fire. I also happen to have: a fire extinguisher. End of story, no communication required.
I know that I'm not perfect, I am thankfully confident. So when I was driving down the road with my friend a good number of years back and he asked if my jalopy of an old jeep usually smoked under the hood this much, I said "oh yea, does it all the time." Shortly thereafter I said "oh shit!" because the front end of the jeep caught on fire. I could have been hoping for my friend to help me, or a stranger to help me, but I didn't do any of that. I just used a fire extinguisher. I didn't have to hope and wait and believe and wish until the universe manifested a fire extinguisher in my jeep. I just put one in there with my hands, at an earlier date. I used money that I earned from mowing lawns to pay for the fire extinguisher. It's really as simple as all that. I don't see the point in consulting someone else when I know what I have: a fire. I also happen to have: a fire extinguisher. End of story, no communication required.
So at the end of the day, I don't need to listen to experts and the highly qualified in order to figure out what I think about the world. I always consult doctors on health matters and if I had legal trouble I would consult a lawyer. These are two professions where you can make no substitutions. The same thing applies to all the concepts of life that I know nothing about. I will never have advice or an opinion on plumbing or apple trees. I just have to be present and aware of what I do know. I know that Diogenes and Socrates have taught me a lot and I don't need an expert to explain to me what I already know to be true of both men. I know that for a long time all I needed was to go shoot hoops by myself in order to deal with sadness. I know now that I would rather hang myself from the basketball hoop rather than go a few weeks without my depression meds. So we all become experts of ourselves at some point.
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