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Originally Posted by Radical  However, you seem to view yourself as superior to others. As long as they're a nice person they're worth interacting with. |
I got an uncomfortable feeling reading that, which probably means there's some truth to it, even though I would normally freely say it anyway, albeit in a self-effacing "half-joking" manner.
Let me give a more concrete example: recently (I don't have the link offhand) someone posted a video to YouTube of a Rube Goldberg setup they had constructed in their office. I thought it was neat/clever, but when I looked through the comments I saw things like "u must have been really bored". I get the impression that a lot of people see creativity itself as nothing but transmogrified boredom. And there's a certain "deadness" in people's eyes when they say things like that.
It may be my failing that I perceive the world as predominantly anti-creative, or at least oblivious to why anyone would want to put a lot of work into anything that didn't provide them with a paycheck within five days.
As for "nice", I think I'm pretty responsive to genuinely nice people, because there's at least a certain aliveness and awareness there, so I don't mean to put nice people down. But I do have a tendency to want to isolate my favorite people.
These are not topics I normally write about, so I'll surely be second guessing some of it after it's written; please don't take anything I say here as my final word on anything. I'm just putting thoughts out as they come and bravely facing your responses.
