[w0rd-driven]

We sound eerily similar save the financial independence/measure of success. I've come to describe it as a "genius complex" though I don't think that's an actual phrase. It's basically that I think almost everything is ignorant, that is people choose to be dumb. I have absolutely no time for this behavior and when someone I consider neutral to smart ventures into ignorant territory, my care to continue interfacing with them drops to 0.

Conversely though, I don't consider anything others do to be boring even if everyone can agree that it is. I also won't offer an opinion because I have numerous examples in my own life. You would likely consider me very boring but it's largely because I've shut my mind off to cope with the lack of meaningful input. I think a large part of the population does this without even being able to articulate what's happening.

The best answer I have is empathy. My greatest connections come when I exercise high empathy levels and all I'm really doing there is engaging my imagination to try to understand how someone else feels in the situation they're in. I think most of us on the planet, and especially here, have this capacity but I think we see futile efforts a far ways off so we don't bother to engage. I'm stubborn enough to forgo that understanding to commit an insane act that in rare instances make me feel close to other people. I don't have all quality connections with people but the ones I do have tend to run pretty deep and I believe I owe it all to my ability to relate to how someone else feels.