2006-11-25 18:14:05 · 16 answers · asked by falzalnz 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
You are right. Man, the people I know are getting on my last d%^@ nerve. I also sometimes feel alone. Not so much that I think of myself as brilliant, it's just that most of my friends bore me in their quest to find ignorance...
2006-11-26 15:30:50 · answer #1 · answered by lee f 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because to imitate brilliance takes time, motivation and a certain courage to be able to not be just like the others, which may be looked upon with disdain by the rest of the ignorant people around them, causing them to feel slightly ostracised. This to most people is too much hard work. Philosophy will be judjed differently by every individual that it is being given to. Advice is like a cheap stone taken into a brilliant mind and polished into a beautiful gem to be sold off for more than it is worth. Again the average ignorant people in day to day life only see the stone underneath and as for philosophy, it will be too hard for them to bother to try and understand the meaning within so this too will be brushed off.
For these reasons someone who is striving for brilliance may often just give up and fall back into the ignorance of every day life with the rest of society as all the trouble they are going to seems wasted on people who just don't give a damn.
Being ignorant is the easiest way to walk through life. People can just wander with eyes wide shut until they bump into something and wait there until someone else steers thaem around it so they can wander again into the next obstacle of life.
Remember the great saying,
It's hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.
To this my reply is to just turn your back, flap your wings and take off. One should never praise themselves too much for achievement (or berate themselves for failure either) but at the end of the day it is a nice quiet personal victory just to know you are flying free in the winds of wisdom and knowledge, and to just look around beneath and se the squaller take place for the next spot at the feed bowl of society.
2006-11-26 02:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by CLOCKWORK 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In some way, the answer is inherent in your question.
People are generally ignorant - so they mimic ignorance, the thing that they know.
Only the brilliant, and only those encouraged by brilliance, choose to mimic brilliance.
Its tragic - but it defines human history.
-dh
2006-11-26 02:17:00 · answer #3 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is so much less brain power that goes into stupidity and people are inherently lazy so they go for the easier, softer way: ignorance.
2006-11-26 02:18:18 · answer #4 · answered by shaj318 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are a lot of different interpretations of what brilliance vs ignorance is. What seems brilliant to one individual may seem completely ignorant to another, and vice versa......
2006-11-26 02:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because mimicking brilliance is not valued. Being brilliant is.
2006-11-26 02:15:58 · answer #6 · answered by Curious George 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
perhaps it is due to the fact that there is a thin line between genius and insanity, and people would rather be seen as completely stupid than to be seen as insane
2006-11-26 02:22:30 · answer #7 · answered by Em W. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the way to ignorance is shorter and easier I guess.
2006-11-26 02:15:44 · answer #8 · answered by rinah 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it takes real courage to sit behing a computer, under an anonymous screen name and bash someone's feelings. i guess people no longer read the red badge of courage, what suffices is a pathetic attempt at comedy.
2006-11-26 02:17:48 · answer #9 · answered by Circlometry™³ 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
sometimes the line between the 2 is thin
2006-11-26 02:16:17 · answer #10 · answered by kurleylovescheese 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋