DANGER: IDIOTS AHEAD!
It’s often said that we get what we deserve. But what about those who never get anything? Despite repeating several times, they remain…
It’s often said that we get what we deserve. But what about those who never get anything? Despite repeating several times, they remain adorable dodos while testing your breaking point. Who deserved whom here? For the sake of sanity, shouldn’t mercy be shown? At what point does a person finally give up on another person?
The answer to all these questions rest on only one word: Well…
In most arguments nowadays, online or offline, people tend to overlook an irreplaceable element called nuance. Without which, almost all the declarative sentences uttered become a factor of personal bias. To believe in something doesn’t automatically mean that the belief system is true — we live in a flawed world for a reason. Parts and parcels of the whole: nothing, practically nothing, can be absolutely correct. To understand this gap, one has to assume a position of zero leaning and full learning.
Idiots fail miserably here.
And by that, I am not targeting the ones who are unmistakably thick. If a person doesn’t know something, she is ignorant. But if she is proud of not knowing something, then she becomes an idiot. The former case is curable, the latter isn’t. This world we inhabit, as far as you can see, is filled with distinction of the best and worst kinds. Just a matter of subject and discourse. One can be a cool genius in ABC but a pathetic idiot in XYZ.
10 years ago, I used to take it upon myself to rectify the situation because I felt that it’s my responsibility to share what I know for real. Thanks to which, I ended up spending a lot of time and energy on fruitless pursuits. That was in the past. Nowadays, I avoid debates and discussions more aggressively than Nipah. By my sordid calculation, we don’t change unless we feel a spark within ourselves that compels us to see the light. Turns out people avoid people who remind them of what makes them people. Furthermore, as a study, I can’t go around picking up people’s trash from the street — 24 hours a day isn’t going to suffice — or interrupt them in their noble act of littering. Things will change for good — if we excuse the massive part legislation and execution can conduct here — only when people burn in their own desire to keep their cities clean. Unless that happens, we will continue to foster idiots in different aspects of our collective lives.
Since I’ve long nurtured a desire to become a professor someday, I think it’d be an incredible experiment to check how many idiots I’d manage to churn out from the comfort of a classroom. As usual, there is no guarantee here. If a chalk dies to create meaning for us, what about those who only see the black part of the board? Ideally, 4 out of 10 would be a success but I am not sure when this will take place, if at all.
Lastly, as our society is showing larger strains of unsubstantiated fear for the ‘others’, it’s worth wondering whether we’ll ever reach a stage in our evolution when the ‘others’ includes idiots as much as it includes serial killers. After all, ignorance breeds more than just ignorance.