[PicassoCTs]

I wield the truth proudly, because it cut my hands when i picked it up, it slices them when i wield it and it hurts even more when i knight you with it. I actively search out discomfort, i embrace knowledge about my retardation and i attempt to work out solutions for them. I detest the hive, the cuddling together in falsehood and illusions, the disasters it has spawned time and time again, the justifications for evil it was, over and over.

I rather suffer in misery alone for the rest of my life, then to be happy with you together in some delusion.

Those that shirked the burden, have mined the path to the future and parked there misery in addition to my own upon my shoulders. And of course, if we want to redistribute what you parked on the rational as your beast of burden to carry, that is an outrage. It makes sense in a insane way. But then why stay in our society. Why not walk, to those crashing, looping societies that embrace your madness full time. Why eat the fruit we grow, but condemn the gardener? Oh, now you will come with it all, with majority, loudness, the resilience of the true insane. And then you will walk of the cliff, once every generation. Go on then. I will still be here.

[The5thElephant]

This comment sounds like copy-pasta so not sure if it's being posted in disagreement or in satire.

However if it is genuine, as someone who used to think this way I realize now it is falling for the same black and white worldview that you accuse the "insane" others of following.

Is your goal to convince others of the truth, or to simply feel smug about convincing yourself you know the truth? You are enjoying the idea of uncomfortable truths more than the actual discomfort of having to use empathy and mutual context to introduce someone else to a new or uncomfortable view.

Also you wouldn't actually like a world in which everyone was hyper-rational and had no illusions or falsehoods. It would be quite dull.

[sublinear]

> Is your goal to convince others of the truth, or to simply feel smug about convincing yourself you know the truth?

My experience has been that for most people who know the truth and state it bluntly, they don't care about either. They don't want to convince and they don't want to feel smug. They just want the truth to be known so they can wipe their hands and conscience and just move on.

The world is not about status or victory for everyone, especially not these pesky people who always seem to be right about stuff! When you know better, there's nothing to prove or gain by bothering with any of that. Being right keeps things moving along. Smart people don't argue nor have to fight for what they have. They just effortlessly float through this world being right and avoiding ignorant people who love to throw tantrums; underappreciated.

[The5thElephant]

I think we may be talking about different goals here. There is no effect in stating a "truth" that is not received and you don't enjoy stating. If they want the truth to be known, they need to make more effort for it to be communicated, not just heard or read. If there isn't even that desire, and it is purely for the sake of a pattern of sound passing through the air, what should be appreciated about that?

I am not talking about status or victory alone, I am also talking about moving things along and being effective in collaborative or social situations. As someone who used to believe (and still does to varying degrees) that they were one of those smart people floating through the world untouched, I had to learn the hard way why I was under-appreciated. Also considering how often my smart self has been wrong about things that at the time I was 100% certain I was right of, the floating through the world being right part begins to fall apart given enough time.

There is a space between throwing tantrums and being a self-absorbed dick, and that gray area is far more effective, moves things along faster, floats through the world being right better, and is far more appreciated than what the original comment and you are describing.

[ethanbond]

Most atrocities and injustices are committed by people who believed wholeheartedly they have The Truth.

People who legitimately doubt their own beliefs have a hard time conjuring up much malice, and an impossible time conjuring it up in other people.

[macintux]

I’m skeptical of anyone who claims to know the truth. I’m certainly not going to let you “knight” me with it, so I guess we’re in some agreement.

[krapp]

Watch out everyone, we got ourselves a real goddamn Diogenes over here!