So yesterday (Saturday), here in east Tennessee, I went to a small one-man business that deals mostly with music, instrument repairs, and used instruments. As a musician I play several different instruments, and this guy is an expert on one particular instrument, which will be nameless for the purposes of this post. His shop is in a different town, about a 20 minute drive from where I live.
As context, I am a rather hard-right, conservative person, and keep most of my more extreme views concealed (as was the .45 carry piece I had on me at the time), so I don't air my politics in public... I'm just tired of the futile debates with the Left, who are essentially morons with no critical thinking skills.
After discussing some technical aspects of this instrument, the chat wandered to cost of materials related to musical instruments... exotic woods, strings, labor, which instruments are better, German, French, or (more lately) Chinese.
Then the subject turned to the wild fluctuations of silver and gold (sometimes used in ornamentation on instruments).
Without missing a beat, the dude said, "Oh that's just so Trump can get more money."
.... WHUT?! I was rather taken aback by such a stupid statement that I asked him to repeat it. And he did. The man is brilliant when it comes to instrument repair and a knowledge base about instruments that I don't have.
But really? The rising price of silver and gold is... BECAUSE TRUMP WANTS MORE MONEY?! I just let it drop, no amount of reason or knowledge of the precious metals market, or common sense in general, would have gotten through to him.
Are all TDS sufferers this blind to reality?
Side note, leaving that other town I passed a demonstration on a sidewalk that I had to pass, about 100 people or so, with "NO KINGS" signs and other examples of TDS. They waved at me as I drove by, but I just lifted my middle finger salute to them and drove on.
So all in all, I had a full-on display of TDS yesterday.
In my work I deal with some of the most educated people on the planet. Many are a pile of rocks when discussing normal stuff. They are focused on their field of study and don’t have the drive/need to understand anything else. Good job not calling the instrument guy a retard.
Yup that's my experience with PhDs. They are autistically pinpoint ultra educated in ONE tiny field, but absolute fucking morons on everything else.
It's having a extremely sharp peak on a chart, in just 1% of the chart. With everything else low level knowledge.
PhDs are some of the dumbest "smart people" in the world. They only know their niche little Field, and don't have time to learn anything outside of their specific field
That's also why they tend to stay in academia. They usually know NOTHING else about anything and rely on their safe space to affirm their knowledge and opinions.
PhD = "piled higher and deeper"
And even in their niche they know only what the globalist cabal wants them to know.. Academics are some of the most brainwashed people out there. Their world view is fed to them through the filter of 'education'.
This subversion has worked it's way downward into grade schools. We need a reset of what education means, and more life skills taught instead of gender and grievance studies.
So a couple of Idiot Savants then?
Yeah well I may need his luthier services down the road, so I just let it slide. Not a hill I'm gonna die on.
Good call.
Find a mechanic that also plays. I bought a cheap, new bass guitar and tried to show it off to my "older" friend. Later in the convo, he broke out a large whetstone and a fret file. Handing them to me, he said "You're a mechanic, make it right". 6 months later I brought them back now knowing how dynamic new wood can be.
"They are focused on their field of study and don’t have the drive/need to understand anything else."
Can confirm. I was employed by A Major University (tm) for 25 years.
Most frogs on here have most probably had the same thing to deal with, its very irritating to say the least but patience is a virtue. One of the most difficult virtues to employ.
You mean indoctrinated people.