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Listen to yourselves. Look at what you're upvoting. Is this community reaching peak arrogance? It can be rephrased as "We're so fucking smart we need to take s

• tjoff 7y ago
  That's not what it is about, at all. It is, perhaps, quite telling that you would reach that conclusion to a post that ponders whether striving to perform your very best every inch of your life really is the utopia. Being "smart" wasn't even part of the equation yet you somehow ended up there.
  • fragsworth 7y ago
    My point is that the original post and this entire thread is mental masturbation for a bunch of people who think so highly of themselves that they should take steps to actively have to reduce their [insert word for superiority]. You've got issue with me using the word "smart". What word would you like to use? The lack of self-awareness in this community is sometimes baffling.
  • akhilcacharya 7y ago
    I'll be honest, I interpreted it the same way. >a post that ponders whether striving to perform your very best every inch of your life really is the utopia. I can't read it that way because it's not how I operate. I don't identify as a member of the "front row"[0] even though I am middle to upper middle class. All of the things identified as "mediocre" and implicitly compared against are normal to me. There's an entire caste of Americans that went to HYPSM+ and got 2300's on their SATs and feel stifled by Bay culture. I think they are supremely out of touch. [0] https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/back-row-america https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/back-row-america