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It drives me insane for a couple of reasons: 1. I, as a human, like to inform people. I trained to be a librarian and quite enjoy teaching/educating roles. It'

by Mezzie 5y ago

It drives me insane for a couple of reasons: 1. I, as a human, like to inform people. I trained to be a librarian and quite enjoy teaching/educating roles. It's never fun to be reminded that some people just...don't like learning. I find it kind of appalling. 2. I have to live in a society with these people. These people are why we have all the stupid rules ("Who would be THAT stupid?"), and there are just so. many. little. annoyances. about daily life that would go away if we increased everybody's IQ by 10. Also that person has a vote equal to mine, it's entirely likely that they're more successful than I am in life, etc. They're symbolic of all the absurdities we have to put up with because some other hairless ape won't think for five seconds. I recognize that it's not productive anger, and I don't hang onto it any more, but it's still there.

guerrilla 5y ago
Okay, this all makes sense... but why anger specifically then and not disgust, despair, depression, sadness, annoyance or something else?
- Mezzie 5y ago
  Because I am an irrational little ape whose fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response is all fight, all the time. I'm just a very angry person. It's not a good thing, but that's why. The anger itself generally revolves around how these people get other people to do more work in order to coddle their obliviousness. Think people in supermarkets who are so oblivious they make everybody else walk around them/go around the aisle, etc. It's the assumption that everybody else has to adapt to them, and that drives me bonkers because it's an implicit assumption of superiority. ("My needs are the only ones that matter.") I'm VERY sensitive to people thinking they're better than me. (Or myself thinking they do). Not the best part of myself, but one that's worth being aware of so I can do things like curb any authoritarian tendencies that try to use my anger to worm their way into my brain.
  - guerrilla 5y ago
    Thanks for sharing.

by Mezzie 5y ago

guerrilla 5y ago

Okay, this all makes sense... but why anger specifically then and not disgust, despair, depression, sadness, annoyance or something else?

Mezzie 5y ago
Because I am an irrational little ape whose fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response is all fight, all the time. I'm just a very angry person. It's not a good thing, but that's why. The anger itself generally revolves around how these people get other people to do more work in order to coddle their obliviousness. Think people in supermarkets who are so oblivious they make everybody else walk around them/go around the aisle, etc. It's the assumption that everybody else has to adapt to them, and that drives me bonkers because it's an implicit assumption of superiority. ("My needs are the only ones that matter.") I'm VERY sensitive to people thinking they're better than me. (Or myself thinking they do). Not the best part of myself, but one that's worth being aware of so I can do things like curb any authoritarian tendencies that try to use my anger to worm their way into my brain.
- guerrilla 5y ago
  Thanks for sharing.