It’s OK to be ignorant (or stupid) but it is not OK to assume your level of comp

It’s OK to be ignorant (or stupid) but it is not OK to assume your level of comprehension is a measure of anything but your own ignorance. OK? It only SOUNDS like ‘babble’ or ‘gibberish’ to you. You want others to pay the cost of educating you? That’s why you levy criticism. To use shaming in order to force others to educate you rather than demonstrating your ignorance and asking to be educated.

I understand inadequacy. You just don’t realize that you’re demonstrating it – and fooling no one.

If you don’t understand, then ask. If you’re too much of a poser to ask, or too stupid to understand, those are issues for you to deal with. Me, I’m patient as hell, and gregarious with the public – it’s my job. But there is a limit to the costs I am willing to bear on behalf of posers and idiots.

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I know, the supply of posers and idiots is much higher than the supply of moral, honest people, with capable intelligence. But this sort of catharsis helps me relieve my frustration of the reality of that asymmetry.