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I can't find it but I remember a midwit meme circulating with the lab leak theory on the tails when people were shouting down the idea and thought that that ite

I can't find it but I remember a midwit meme circulating with the lab leak theory on the tails when people were shouting down the idea and thought that that iteration of the midwit meme would never be topped. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit Edit: ahh here it is https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-midwit-meme-and-the-rittenhouse https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-midwit-meme-and-the-ri...

lern_too_spel 4y ago
The people who make these memes are right in the center of the bell curve.
- salawat 4y ago
  Which means in all likelyhood, they are probably right. If it weren't the case, the idea would be so far fetched it'd never spread well or catch on. That it catches on is evidence of it's staying power. If you've ever really been innovative, you'll know 90% of the time, your work is looked at with derision/horror in the early stages. You're only vindicated when with time, your thing becomes foundational to the new normal. That's the thing. It drives every innovator nuts because normal people miss all the "nuance and sexy" of your vision, and tend to only adopt whats left after putting it through the ball mill of life; which, in point of fact, tends to only leave behind the core of the state of affairs after grinding off the extraneous, idiosyncratic bullshit your vision picks up along the way to realization as a result of having been first realized by your own crazy ass. It's the Artist's/Craftsman's/Quality Assurance guy's curse. You might be the first, but by the time there are many like it, it tends to have lost all semblance to that which so captivated you those many moons ago. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm in the throes of a bout of perspective, and feel the need to go curl into a ball and cry for a bit. Ciao.

lern_too_spel 4y ago

The people who make these memes are right in the center of the bell curve.

salawat 4y ago
Which means in all likelyhood, they are probably right. If it weren't the case, the idea would be so far fetched it'd never spread well or catch on. That it catches on is evidence of it's staying power. If you've ever really been innovative, you'll know 90% of the time, your work is looked at with derision/horror in the early stages. You're only vindicated when with time, your thing becomes foundational to the new normal. That's the thing. It drives every innovator nuts because normal people miss all the "nuance and sexy" of your vision, and tend to only adopt whats left after putting it through the ball mill of life; which, in point of fact, tends to only leave behind the core of the state of affairs after grinding off the extraneous, idiosyncratic bullshit your vision picks up along the way to realization as a result of having been first realized by your own crazy ass. It's the Artist's/Craftsman's/Quality Assurance guy's curse. You might be the first, but by the time there are many like it, it tends to have lost all semblance to that which so captivated you those many moons ago. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm in the throes of a bout of perspective, and feel the need to go curl into a ball and cry for a bit. Ciao.