Sir, can I introduce you to depression?
I thought ignorance was supposed to be blissful 🥲
Knowledge is a separate thing from intelligence. Even the smartest person in the world is ignorant of tons of stuff because it hasn’t come up in their life yet.
Intelligence can make it easier to collect knowledge, or to better understand it, but they are separate things.
I’ve always seen the distinction as:
- knowledge = the body of facts
- wisdom = ability to apply knowledge to situations in the world and your life
In our society the word “smart” can be applied to either one. Ken Jennings, legendary game show player of Jeopardy, is considered smart because of his extensive depth of knowledge of trivia. I content Method Man (and other members of the Wu-Tang Clan) along with Raider Ruckus are wise for encapsulating the idea of “Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M., get the money, Dollar, dollar bill y’all”.
Sir, this is The Andes
Until you do and wish you hadn’t.
Oops!
I thought the only smart move was to not play?
Oh, wait, that’s Global Thermonuclear War.
And blackjack
And stock options.
Dividend reinvestment, index funds, and someone in charge not trying to steal all our money.
That used to be the secret recipe
It’ll be interesting to see if it stands up to the test of time. For better or worse, I replaced my VTI index ETF with VTV to avoid the highest p/e offending tickers.
It sucks that I spent my whole life following the rules. Saving my money. Making low risk investments to provide for my family and our future.
And it’s all being stolen now.
Steal what people have to lose and they’ll start acting like they’ve nothing left to lose…
The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There’s some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I’m not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.
My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the ‘life is no fair’ fact.
And The Game. Wait, you can’t!
and hookers!
There is a non-zero chance that if you press it, you become smarter enough to realize you shouldn’t have pressed it…
Ignorance is bliss
Intelligence begets depression.
Replace button with book and press with read and yup.
I’m smart enough to ask questions about the button before I press it.
Would rather have a charm button
ignorance is bliss
The smarter you are the less happy you are. Fuck that button.
