Author: Coilean (---.uu.net)
Date: 07-19-2002 11:47
To start out with, this post has nothing new. It's mainly a collection of stuff I've said before, in articles or posts. Oh, I might be paraphrasing a bit, I might be taking things to their logical conclusion, I might even be articulating the glaringly obvious - but there's nothing new here. Go on, shoo.
What, you're still here? Either you're actually interested in what I have to say, or you're looking for something to flame. Either way, congratulations, you've found it.
I've seen a common theme to the posts of those who criticize me. It's "you're acting elite when you're not". I've been trying to work out for a long time how they decided this. I've found a poor metaphor which might do the trick - but hey, if their assumptions made sense in any way, I wouldn't've had such a hard time matching up another concept to it.
Imagine a ladder. The middle rungs belong to you; you're where everyone else is. Sure, a few people might hold a slightly higher or lower rung, but you're all in the middle. There are a few rare people in the higher. They awe you with their concepts. There are a lot of people in the lower. They are boring, unintelligent, and cannot put a thought together - and it shows.
But now imagine someone has come along, and claims to be from a different ladder. That's clearly ridiculous - there's only one: yours. You can't understand them clearly, so they certainly can't be on your rungs [the middle], and that leaves only below you or above you. They claim to have something worth understanding; well, since you want to move up the ladder, not down, this implies they are claiming to be above you [even if you could find anything useful from those lower down, you wouldn't want to].
The logical fallacy here is, they're not claiming to be above or below you, or even on the same ladder at all. They claim to be living on a different line, to connect with the "One-Dimensional" concept; all they've asked for the right to, or tried to communicate as being possible, is acceptance of their presence on the middle rungs. The logical fallacy, is that a person does not have to be far above you, for their concepts to be useful to you.
Too many people are dismissed arbitrarily because their thought processes are different. Maybe there are a bunch of ladders, all across the bookshelf of knowledge [with the harder stuff up near the top], and someone on a ladder close to yours is reaching out a hand. If you both reach for it, maybe we can find out that there are different books farther along each row.
-Coilean mac Caiside
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