Is there any trait or characteristic about yourself that many people wish they had, but you find to be more of a hindrance or annoyance?

[Lost_in_the_Woods]

Yeah,

Being smart.

Everybody thinks they want to be smart. Shit, most people think they are until I show up and just be myself. And I get so much hate, so much jealousy, so many people biting at my heels trying to hamstring me, so many people in power trying to get rid of me, cut me down or make me look bad... And even if it wasn't for other people.... Being smart doesn't make me happier. It doesn't make me richer. It sure as shit doesn't make my life easier. Ignorance really is bliss. Seeing all the problems doesn't make them go away. Seeing the chains on people, seeing the way out, seeing how good life actually Should be doesn't change a dam thing when there are 6 billion people working to keep the status quo, 2 billion who just don't give a shit, and 100,000 tyrants trying to keep it that way.

I'll tell you why smart people are so much more likely to kill themselves. Because if you think this is as good as it gets, you have a chance at being content. Playing the game, maybe even coming out ahead, better than you ever thought possible. But if you know none of us really have to suffer, you know how we could be living Instead, and all you see is fucking zombies, killing themselves and the planet to make Jeff Bezos a Trillionaire... Man, there's no way to be happy with that shit. There is no way to be content. Life is only going to be pain for you. Anger. Hopeless. Disgust. Pity. It's fucking miserable.

Best case scenario, you run away like a dam coward and leave your friends to be eaten. Worst case, you tell them the truth and they beat you down, call you crazy, and sell you out to the slave drivers so they can keep working for peanuts. And you die knowing they will remember you as the bad guy.

My own mother sold me out to those people for telling her to leave me alone because she just doesn't learn. She's fucking crazy, I'm not, but they know that so I'm the one they want to disappear. I'm a threat to the people in power, and they've convinced my own family I need "treatment" "for my own safety"

Snowden is a genius. He had everything. He was literally one of the most powerful people in the world. He lost pretty much everything. He's basically a Russian prisoner now. He did it for us and people won't even stand up and take 1/1000th of that risk for him. He risked his life, his family's lives, the woman he loved, and exposed their #1 weapon. But people are so clueless it didn't change anything. It's only gotten worse. I think the most important thing he said was that before he came out of that room and told the world the truth, they were invincible. Because anyone who caught on, anyone who actually found the truth, and talked about it... Well of course they denied everything. Destroyed the evidence, locked that person up in a psychiatric ward and said they were crazy. And you bet your ass they made sure they didn't get out until they were. And people actually believed the government was there to help.

That's what they did to me. The drugs they have in there are fucking weapons. Not all of them, there are a lot of good doctors and scientists who want to help people... But you'd have to be a fool to think they don't have people in labs working on a "cure" for dissent. Soma is a joke, they've been perfecting the real shit for decades. They're just smart enough to keep it secret.

I know how to play their game so they couldn't stick me with it, but I saw what they did to the girl who fell in love with me while I was there. That shit would give the joker nightmares. And I have to live with the fact that I let it happen because I was too busy trying to get myself out and save my finances. Not that I did... I got out but, they took everything I had. I have to sit here thinking I could have saved her too, and I have to wonder if they did it to her because she cared about me. She's tough shit, She fought it for years and she didn't lose... But she'll probably never be the same again. Stronger maybe, but not happier. And she's one of the lucky ones.

People think they want to be smart. People think they want to see the strings that control the system but they really don't. You'll either be strangled with them while your friends call you crazy, or you'll have to live with the guilt of becoming one of the bad guys. Joe Biden isn't smart, but the people in charge are fucking brilliant. And I haven't met them, but I can tell you right now they aren't any happier than I am.

I have met some of them. I used to work at a high end country club a few hours from DC. We had plenty of political VIP's billionaires, people who didn't have names... People who come have whatever they wanted without even asking. They were all miserable. That's how I know I'd rather die screaming while my friends and family throw rocks at me. Pain is temporary, but you can't buy away the guilt. You can't drink it away with a million dollars at a world class resort. Nah. If you're smart, you are going to suffer no matter which road you choose. Might as well take the one you can be proud of.

But let me tell you, I'd rather not know so much. That's still not a choice you want to make. I wish I didn't see how all the parts fit together, cus plenty of dumbasses build dirt bikes and go ride them. That's all I want to do, but they don't have small dogs biting them from behind and chemical weapons pointed at their friends. I don't get to be happy. I don't get to live my dreams. I could, but I have bigger problems.

I don't want to be smarter than other people. I want us all to be smart together, or I want to re-roll and be happy instead. Superman didn't get paid for fighting Lex Luther. He screamed in agony, alone, a cave nobody even knew about. And at least he had parents who cared enough to tell him he was doing the right thing. Mine say I'm a burden because I'd rather sacrifice myself to help people find freedom than profit off keeping them in cages.

People think they want to be smart, but real shit, they have no idea what they are asking for. Being dumb has its downsides, but it has its benefits too. Being average is actually the best way to get ahead. But there's a reason you don't see a lot of happy geniuses. You see the truth, you either lose your mind, lose your heart, or suffer every day trying to change things. There's no way to just sit back and be happy with that.

Look in Mark Zuckerberg's eyes and ask yourself if you think he's happy. That man looks more tortured than a Holocaust survivor... because at least there was a way out for them. Hitler killed himself because there wasn't.

I'm not saying I feel bad for these people. They deserve every bit of that pain. But I am saying they aren't happier than I am. Sure, I might be afraid to close my eyes, leave my house or drink bottled water... But at least I can feel good about myself. Taking the money is like taking Consuela's gold. You might think you're happy at first but you'll find out what's really important to you and you'll never taste an apple again.

Being smart is worse than that. Because you have to live with knowing your choice is to be tortured and targeted or Capitan Barbosa begging for a death that doesn't come. And the knowledge that it doesn't have to be that way, but it's probably never going to change because the people who don't know better would rather kneecap you and take your peanuts than take second place in paradise.

Me, I'd gladly let someone else do it. I don't want to be rich or famous. But if the people who want to win so badly actually had the ability to do so they wouldn't have to try to stop me from getting far enough ahead to change things.

They don't want to build something better, they want to be the fattest rat because they think that's what it means to be happy.

I want to build self sustaining houses for 30 grand so people can quit paying rent and spend that money on themselves. And I've got the plans to do it. That's why the powerful can't have me making money and buying lumber. They need that rent to keep people working all day and hand them all the profits.

But the same idiots who don't want to do that for their whole life, gang up on me because they can't handle that I know all the parts of the truck without taking the class. Help the boss make excuses to throw me out and not let me get a CDL, so they can look smart, make the $40k and hand it right back, be stuck on the road for 20 years getting nowhere and making someone else rich.

And now I can't afford the tools I need to give them another option. . .

People don't have a clue what's going on.

I WISH I was dumb enough to think that way. I'd be the fucking best at it. But I've tried it and I'll never be happy holding other people back just so I can have the comfy cell.

Being smart is a curse. People don't wish they were as smart as me. I wish they were as smart as me, so they could suffer like I do and start doing something about it.

But that's asking way too much.
People can't handle that, so they just gang up and peck my legs out like a pack of frightened chickens.

Nah, It doesn't help to be the swan in a world full of ducks. Not when all they want is to be better than the next guy. That just makes you the one target everyone can agree to gang up on.

"Lex Luthor, Ruler of Australia"

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[MCheetah]

I agree with you. I also think all the "smart bad guys" like Gates, Zuckerberg, Obama, etc, started out with good intentions. I mean, I did. I legit had a crappy life (although you've mentioned yours; mine wasn't that bad), and the main thing I wanted was to live in a world where NO ONE would ever have to suffer like that again. I'm not even saying a Utopia, but rather, just one where no one dies from starvation or not having clean drinking water, despite the fact 70% of the f*cking planet is covered in water. A world where no one had to be homeless unless they wanted to, and a world where your biggest struggles in life was deciding WHAT you wanted to do with it, not trying to survive.

After the 2020 US election happened though, with OBVIOUS f*cking election fraud, in plain sight, and so many people blindly accepting it (even Conservatives, just saying "Trump 2024" and sh*t, like retards), that's when I truly became a little Blackpilled. Like, I ALWAYS knew humanity was stupid. And although I supposedly have a 150 IQ (not to bring up IQ, but to give you a comparison to the "average human;" I'm 50% smarter than them in most everything that isn't people skills), I don't "feel smart." I feel normal. Like, I don't consider myself a genius. I just think I have common sense and most people, ironically, don't. They lack basic logic and reasoning skills, nowadays. They'll join BLM thinking looting and rioting is the only way you can "prove" to people you're not in the KKK. They act like pieces of sh*t and total fascists, thinking they're "good people" and "helping others" with a somewhat clear conscience (at least on the surface, most SJW's probably know how sh*tty and reprehensible they are, deep down inside, despite that low intelligence and/or mental health in the way).

Anyway, the 2020 election was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. Especially since Mr. "You ain't black" girl-sniffer didn't even bother campaigning I mean, they didn't even bother to put up appearances anymore; they just stole an election, bragged about to TIME Magazine in February, and people still doubt anything wrong happened. It was LITERALLY in plain sight, on camera, and people still accept it as "reality" and didn't literally kill every member of Congress and anyone involved for being obvious traitors to the US. I knew democracy was always flawed, but if it was truly 100% pointless, then Trump wouldn't have won in 2016. He was clearly not in the social circle (anymore) of the elitists. So elections still meant SOMETHING before then.

But still. November 2020 is when I realized people are FAR stupider than you can imagine. Even people you'd assume would be "smart" due to their career, like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. They buy into the whole woke BS, too. Not just to save their own skin, but many of them genuinely believe this crap. If it was just for appearances, they'd just say the bare minimum. Like most Hollywood actors. Some of them are retarded, but most are just towing the line.

After 2020, and the subsequent "getting away with it," I now realized why these scum you talk about exist. Because most of humanity really ARE irredeemable. People really ARE this stupid. And they likely always have been. The internet and mainstream media just puts a microscope on it all. Even Napoleon looked down on the average person's intelligence. Albert Einstein, too. Every great person throughout history had an idea of how stupid human beings are.

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[MCheetah]

So essentially, I think the choices come down to "Freedom or Existence." I don't doubt that the World Economic Forum elitists and scumbags to the core. But THEY think they're doing the right thing by enacting global Communism and making the West fall. And for good reason; they can see where "freedom" has gotten us. A polluted planet, overpopulation, and Twitter. And honestly, it's a myth to think humanity can have true freedom and independence, while still progressing forward. They probably think freedom will lead to extinction. And they may just be correct.

This is why the world sucks. Because humanity is literally too f*cking idiotic to survive on its own. They figure living in a controlled dystopia is better than complete extinction. Sorry for making this a MyTake of my own, but the Blackpill got the best of me.

[Lliam]

I don't think I am particularly smart, but I can put 2+2 together. And for some reason, my mind is open enough to take in information without suffering from cognitive dissonance if it conflicts with what I thought I knew. I'm not afraid of information on any topic. I'm pretty good at discerning what is well documented and what makes sense. And I have a good spidey sense for bias and propaganda. Plus, I can modify or change my opinions as more information becomes available.

So I understand what you are saying about the way things are. The majority of people are lumpen. They are so easy to control. As a result, I wind up looking like a rebel. Oh well. I'll take that. It's better than being clueless and contributing the decline of humanity.

I will say that I have a wonderful network of amazingly bright and informed people around the world - people who are smarter than I. They not only share information that I would otherwise not run across, but they give me heart in knowing that there are many ethical people who see the truth behind the veil of information control and are willing to step up in service of humanity. There are many millions. I share information, too, in defiance of the masters of the matrix.

People networking and working together is how we avoid the train wreck that seems to be rapidly approaching.

[Lost_in_the_Woods]

I do think you're particularly smart.
One consequence of that is that you're more aware of how much you don't know, so many smart people greatly underestimate where they fall because so many average people are so much more confident in themselves. I took an IQ test and I was cautiously hoping to be in the top ten percent.
Very unhappy with my performance, very aware that I wasn't at my best that day, and genuinely shocked by the scores. But most people never get that oppertunity. My parents had us tested when we were very young, but they refused to tell us how we did and I understand now.

The hardest part at first was not letting it go to my head.
The hardest part after that was realizing that I still don't have the answers to so many important problems and humanity as a whole really has our work cut out for us if we want to survive the next 200 years without total irreparable collapse.

AI is genuinely the most dangerous thing that our species has ever faced, and we're also running out of food. Don't take my word for it, just listen to what Elon Musk has been saying. There is a real and serious reason why he is so intent on making it to Mars in the next 50 years, and he says we are way off the pace.

I think we have to focus on not making things worse here, and not letting Lex Luthor have his way before it's too late. The planet isn't the issue, we are. And we aren't going to solve it unless we work together. This could be one of the most important centuries and even decades in all of human history forwards and backward. I believe the singularity occurred 15 years ago when the first iPhone came out. I mean, they already have monkeys controlling computers with microchips implanted in their brains. CAD is already old-fashioned AI is going to change everything, and it's already here.

[Lost_in_the_Woods]

Truth is, you're way ahead of me. You're already doing what needs to be done. That doesn't shock me at all, but it sure is reassuring. My generation has more potential than anyone who came before us, but you don't let the new guy lose with all that and expect it to go well.

My gramma taught me more in the few days I spent with her than the schools did in 10 years.
She literally ran 2 businesses and her whole town. She did it for us, but we won't stay on track without someone who knows where we came from, how we got here, and how to avoid the disasters we already know about. She worked herself to death, gave everything she could every day... But I can't tell you how many questions I wish I could ask her.

But if I were you, I wouldn't be so concerned. It's the young people who are going to suffer if they don't wake up and start listening.

I don't think it's any coincidence that the whole world is distracted by a man-made virus that's destabilizing every economy in the world and only kills people over 65 while Bill Gates buys all the farmland, Nestle buys all the water, and Constitutional Liberty goes out the window.

People don't see what's really happening. AI is already so powerful that it can practically build its own robotic farmers from scratch. They have robot mines, robot trucks, robot production facilities, robot tractors, and robotic fry cooks. The world's food production isn't keeping up with our population growth. The rich have collected and monopolized most of the world's food, water, fuel, and raw materials. Within 20 years poor people will not be required to keep the wheels turning, and by the time that becomes obvious it will be too late.

My generation is busy fighting in the street over who has stars and who doesn't while they kill off the people who know better, build armies of drones, and make excuses to test them on the civilizations who have already stood the test of time.

[Lost_in_the_Woods]

But the answer won't be on a multiple-choice test. The answer will come from the people who have seen and fought against the Nazis, the Communists, and the Jim Crow laws. Intelligence is always second best to wisdom. Because a smart man can find the answer, but a wise one probably already knows what it is.

"People networking and working together is how we avoid the train wreck that seems to be rapidly approaching."

And we have to find ways to do it in person. They took control of the internet long before they let us have cellphones. And they could cut phone lines and turn the gas pumps off before most of us were born. My buddy has a HAM radio but, I'm not sure that's gonna cut it.

[Lliam]

Thank you, Lost_in_the_Woods. You and I share the same concerns. You said it well.
You have my respect.

[Ghostlock]

I have the ability to predict the future with a high degree of accuracy based on current facts and situations. it is highly frustrating because there is nothing that I can do about it. However, others have always been amazed at how I can do it and wish that they could do it. Little do they know it would only frustrate them because when you try and change the outcome, you find that you can't because nobody listens. I am not psychic or any such nonsense, it is simply nothing more than analyzing the current events and predicting the inevitable future based on the facts. I suppose not everyone has the intelligence required to do so, so to them, it seems like a "gift" when truly it is a curse. Ignorance is bliss, intelligence is tormenting.

[worldscolide]

Mine has always been intelligence.. It earned me a ton of beating when I was small.