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I used to think I had imposter syndrome but it turns out I just really am mediocre.
I am constantly having a similar thought. I’m a student and not a single thing I do is good enough. I’ve gotten honors and awards every semester, I get good grades, but not without professors tearing apart my papers with petty criticisms, not infrequently contradicting their own instructions. And then I think about what George Carlin said, or a paraphrase of it, “think about the stupidest person you know. Most people are even more stupid than that” or some such, and I’m just like ??
Intelligence is becoming a fucking rarity in the US, but because of that it’s almost becoming a form of deviance that everyone is afraid of, questions, or dislikes. Or all of those.
I think its something like “think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of people are even more stupid than that”.
The brilliance of that joke is that everyone, no matter who you tell it to, everyone always laughs.
Nobody wants to think they’re on the stupid side.
I’m starting to wonder if imposter syndrome and self-awareness go hand in hand. Or if maybe imposter syndrome is self-awareness gone wrong, or dialed up too high. Because it seems like you will never see imposter syndrome in people like Ben Shapiro who are absolutely convinced of their own superiority or intelligence. Narcissists are probably immune to imposter syndrome.
Isn’t he the middle aged man who burnt the hair of a doll because he didn’t like my movie for being too woke or something?
The dude spent 45 minutes ranting about the Barbie movie.
It’s disturbingly obsessive. It’s unhinged.
You kinda have to be a grown-up to get the movie (it’s not that deep though), so of course an overgrown man-child like Ben Shapiro wouldn’t get it.
I think it had numerous multifaceted points to make and made them from all sides.
It was female empowerment first and foremost, sure, but there were also strong messages about motherhood, manhood independent from women, finding purpose outside a hierarchy, and corporate bandwagoning for profit (which in itself is probably just a way for Mattel to seem like they’re aware of their own faults).
It was a good movie and the only people who would be offended by anything in it are man-children who can’t handle being told they’re not so special.
(I am a white man FWIW, and thoroughly enjoyed the movie)
Oh yeah, haven’t thought about that guy in a while. Just keep treating him like the joke he is.
