I have trouble with the disparity of common sense and intelligence between normies and myself. I am sure most of you can relate. I feel like my knowledge base of the world is exponentially larger, more logic based and more open than the average person.
How could this be? How can I/we be so much stronger intellectually than the rest.
I dont have the answer, this isnt a post to pump my/our egos. This is truly the only doubt that ever creeps into my mind about what we are going through.
What do we all share that brought us here? I would love to hear your thoughts.
Many people posted excellent answers. I suppose my small contribution would be a possible explanation.
Narcissism and ego.
Culture nowadays is plagued by ego and narcissism. So many people so many aspects lf their lives, needing themselves to be the focus of their world. Not entirely their fault, as society today tends to encourage that behavior.
What I have found, in most of those awake or at least intelligent, don’t have the rampant narcissism found in their asleep contemporaries. Speaking for myself, I don’t find myself to be all that smart. I don’t think that highly of myself. I am able to admit when I am wrong.
And by positing this question, you kind of prove that to be true. You’re concerned that you may be wrong. This is where we differ from the masses who don’t question everything. Questioning your entire worldview is hard. It’s painful. And one can either face that head-on, or just stick their head back in the sand.
I don’t think we’ll ever know the whole story, as frustrating as that is to say and hear. But I will say this: since January, I went from a staunch atheist to keeping the rosary my grandmother gave me on my nightstand. It’s been a bizarre journey, personally.
I’m not saying the main reason is this, but as an American reason I would say it is up there. Plus, with all the bloviating people do online about their opinions, how shitty will it feel once the truth comes out? And they have to realize that the last few years of frothing at the mouth over perceived enemies was all bullshit? Hooooo boy. No one likes looking like an asshole.
And if I’m wrong, I’m prepared to look like an asshole. Spent my life being one, anyway. ;)