What do you choose between being normal or know everything? ( conspiracy )

submitted by Conspirologist

Just curious, what would you choose between being an unaware but normal person, or being allowed to know all what is going on, but being a sad and pathetic loner, because unable to live a normal life like average people do?

Not_Spartacus

I have always been a well informed punk-rocker. Yes, I was a weirdo, but I was never a loner. Not when I was younger anyway.

Now that I'm older I'm a loner by choice. I have no desire to have friends. When my phone rings I say "Fuck! What do you want from me now?". I turn down every invitation to anything.

Since I have always had that reputation as being a weirdo I have absolute freedom to say and do anything I want and nobody is surprised. I'm like a real life Bernard Black.

Just be yourself. To thine own self be true. It seems like you feel that your only two choices are fitting in with the established pop-culture society, or being a hermit. There are hundreds of other options. Decide who you are and go with it. Be confidant. People are going to accept a confidant weirdo more than they'll accept a timid follower.

ardvarcus

I choose correct grammar.

Tallest_Skil

False dichotomy.

Communism4Israel

How so?

Tallest_Skil

These aren't remotely the only options afforded to anyone. The premise presented by the OP is one of the tactics used by Common Core education. It's pigeonholing people into an arbitrarily limited set of options for the given situation. As an example, take this hypothetical scenario: A ship has sunk; there's debris everywhere. There exists a lifeboat which can hold 30 people, and there are 35 people in the boat, which is beginning to sink.

Now I ask you, "Who doesn't get to stay in the boat?" The premise I have given you has directed your thoughts into destructive measures. You begin to take a tally of the conditions and worth of the people in the boat so that you can figure out who has the least worth.

On the other hand, if I ask, "How do we save everyone?" you look at the problem in an entirely different light. Maybe some people are tied to the boat and tread water beside it. Maybe you row the boat over to some of the other debris so they can hang on to it.

You see?