• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    It implies them having that complex, thinking they know better than, as another comment pointed out, some nerds.

    You know, that kind of people thinking their degree of social anthropology or whatever makes them smarter than you in every area. Because whatever they are doing is important and whatever you are doing is toys for nerds.

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      8 months ago

      I can imagine a social butterfly looking down on nerds. Although I gotta level with you: that sounds like something that would primarily occur in high school to me. Maybe you’re grown and still dealing with that, but either way: using the term normies is not going to help at all, I assure you.

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        8 months ago

        Maybe you’re grown and still dealing with that, but either way: using the term normies is not going to help at all, I assure you.

        This seems common sense to you, right?

        Well, I, being almost 28, am just starting to realize that you should carefully measure both respect and disrespect, and there may be too little or too much of both.

        Maybe not “social butterfly”, I’m just thinking of all the people thinking they now know what is serious in life. A surprising amount don’t have complex hobbies or even deep cultural familiarity with their own profession.

        And if that profession is more about talking to people than about conceptualization (many typical office jobs), or maybe it is descriptive, not creative (like many liberal arts degrees), they are going to be dismissive of people who actually make things.

        Watching and doing is different, and people watching often think too much of their ability to do stuff, just like with sports or music or cars or warfare or porn.

        EDIT: The point was that sometimes it’s better to be honest and use such means to inform people that they don’t know what they are talking about.