All day every day for me. I have a lot of difficulty with paying attention to certain sorts of details and typos are for sure in that category.
What’s even worse is when I know hotly to spell a word and have used it for years of my life, only to have a brain fart one day and completely butcher it over doubts and half-formed ideas. I recently spelled ‘pacifism’ as something like ‘passifiscm’, looked at it and thought “WhAt a WeIrDlY SpELleD wOrD” before continuing on. Not a single thought more was spent on it until someone else, lightly and politely, corrected me on it lol
I don’t believe I have ever had an interaction with you that was not the most annoying part of my day, and I’m pretty confident that you already know exactly what I was getting at.
So, instead of playing your game, I’m going to block you and enjoy my morning. I hope that you make some choices which’ll lead to your own happiness, as well. Bye-bye 👋
Not even a little.
Some unasked for advice; don’t waste your life worrying what other people will think of you. Some people will always find a reason to look down on you. Doesn’t matter how smart, diligent, kind, hard-working, or whatever else you are. Those types will always find a reason.
So just do what you need, then do what you want, and let the people alomg the way who like what they see into your life. I promise that this is much more conducive to happiness than wasting mental resources on people that will never really care what you’re doing anyway. Finish school and chase whatever it is you’re after! You fuckin got this, dude!
No. It is just one of many ways to divide people.
Looking down on people for doing what they have to in order to make a living is narrow-minded and rather ignorant, if not outright stupid, because it only takes one bad day to take the comfortable dressings of your life and strip them all away. With only one bad day, you could be worse off than whoever it is you look most severely down your nose at.
You are made of the same things as beggars, as fry-cooks, as billionaires, and as rats alike. Prestige rots just like everything else, and trying to disprove or outrun this basic law of reality is the domain of the insecure and the foolish. Do not allow yourself to be an insecure fool, if it can be helped.
Respect what it is that you really are and seek yourself in others. That is what matters.
Entry level is whatever gets people to enter a new line of thought. It gets the process started. What you’re talking about is someone who has already begun the process and made it past the gate which you are currently playing keeper to. What youre talking about is someone who already knows the entry level things and so now reflects that in the ways they choose to educate themselves.
This article gives people who need it a little push and a reason to start changing their behavior and thought process, instead of just telling them that they’re stupid and wrong for not already knowing and agreeing with whatever you think is best.
Being upset about their behavior not magically changing on their own is not helpful to this cause. Giving them reasons to reconsider why they see things the way they do is helpful, because the whole point is to get them thinking and behaving differently, not getting them feeling defensive and possibly scaring them off from ever trying again. If the goal is positive change, that change must begin with perspective and information.
If not here, and through things like this article, where do you expect that change to begin? Because we’ve had enough pooled time to tell its not going to spontaneously happen just because we want it to. So, very genuinely, if you know a better way than now is the time to share it with the rest of us. How would you better begin the process of convincing these people to start living in ways which you would deem worthwhile?
Pessimism doesnt justify denying the reality that if we want these people to know and do better, than there simply have to be steps taken toward starting that process, which is clearly the goal of this piece.
You are currently gatekeeping the barrier-to-entry of that betterment, and for what? Because people aren’t already where you want them to be? That can be read as many things, but ‘helpful’ is just not one of them.