(Jul 18, 2016 09:33 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Jul 15, 2016 09:35 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ]See you later, C C. Have a good one.
You too, Secular Sanity. Almost slipped my mind that more of us than Ben might be traveling or in some vein of motion.
Haven't quite left yet, nor is my internet gone - I'm paid up until the 10th of next month (although I'll probably be gone before that) because they won't allow us to cut off on a specific day, only at the end of a whole month. I'm still fairly busy though so won't be around much.
Plans have changed a bit anyway, I'll be travelling a bit more than I first thought. I've a mind to take an extended road trip. Very extended. I might post some photos as I go, if I have time. And, of course, if that wouldn't be about as much fun for you lot as a slideshow you're forced to sit down to at your Grandma's house after they went south in the Winnebago that one time.
Where is CC going anyway? This is news.
Quote:Truly "smart" people (at least in the directly useful sense) are those carrying around vast amounts of particular knowledge and specific skills stashed away in their memory. I've only got the luggage of broader concepts and strategies for examining relationships and taking apart something and deriving general understandings / "big pictures" of what's going on. Those who work at the nuts and bolts level are the ones who get things done. Admittedly, they might sometimes myopically put together an item or a movement that drives part of the world over a cliff, but they're still the ones who get both familiar and new ideas concretely realized, and implement them.
I had a conversation with Gendanken once comparing some types of intelligence to being an idiot savant; as in, while being extremely good at some things and becoming successful (a lot of managers fit into this category) as a result, they still don't know much about stuff, and stuff. You're quite correct in this assessment, though, I have the same feeling - i.e. that the particular type of "intelligence" I have isn't very useful to society as a whole.
Although I'm quite handy with a spreadsheet myself, so fortunately I've been able to get along regardless. I am in absolute awe of the skills of some, and at the same time absolutely frustrated and flabbergasted at their lack of ability when it comes to actual conversation regarding anything other than who is screwing who in the office.
As for "I very much take relativism and multiple possibilities / perspectives into account, at least as far as the way the natural world hangs together with the inter-dependence of its contents." I'm much the same... to the point where in social situations, I don't bother saying anything at all. It's most often a complete waste of effort.
In fact, it's been so long I've actively engaged in any DMC's IRL that I've quite forgotten how. I can type out a well-researched post on the internet in about half an hour, but I can't translate it to real time conversation.
It's the lack of... background. A conversation on some levels requires a certain amount of background knowledge (history, politics, philsophy etc) that most simple don't have. For me, I feel as though I'm trying to teach quantum mechanics to first graders.
So I learned to talk about the footy, or say nothing at all. Usually the latter.
There is also the problem where knowing a little too much can cause a near paralysis when it comes to forming any actual opinions, when it comes to political conversation, or social mores. I can argue both sides of a discussion with equal ease, most of the time, but it does detract from the ability to form any firm opinion of one's own. eventually, you just kind of... stop.