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Wouyld you take a lobatomy to be happier?
Yes 23%
No 15%
Can't understand the question 61%

Votes: 13

 Is brain power that good?

 Author:  Topic:  Posted:
Feb 04, 2002
 Comments:

I have found through out my own life that if I think too much, it makes me tired and depressed. All the genii in history seem to lead dysfunctional lives and never to be truly happy.

Whereas Joe Six Pack coach potato is truly happy as he aspires for nothing more than a beer, salty snacks, sex and some mildly diverting TV. He doesn't want to change the world or replace the Microsoft monopoly with inferior communist European software. The corporations look after him very well.

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So my solution for the all the misfits, geeks and other slightly more celebral types is for a lobatomy to bring youselves back to average so you can truly enjoy all the fruits of this great civilisation offers to those who don't question and just sit back and enjoy.

Let the others do the thinking and take the unpleasant side effects of using their brain. Anyway your obviously not quite gifted enough if you post here instead of running a large corporation so why not admit defeat.



       
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I'll give that lobotamy a miss if I were you... (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 07:29:40 AM PST
...instead, insist on a lobotomy.


 
after reading this (none / 0) (#2)
by motherfuckin spork on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 07:35:25 AM PST
one might think that you have already undergone mental lapidification.


I am not who you think I am.

 
Question (none / 0) (#3)
by hauntedattics on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 07:55:24 AM PST
Have you actually met this 'Joe Six Pack couch potato'? Or is he a well-developed figment of your imagination?

Maybe if you got down from your 'cool, misunderstood genius' horse and began interacting with other people from different walks of life, you'd realize that you aren't any cooler or more misunderstood. And maybe through that interaction you'd learn a lot and grow as a human being.

Or am I being too optimistic here?



joe six-pack (none / 0) (#4)
by nathan on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 08:11:19 AM PST
Now there's a preposterous liberalist myth.

Any takers on the date of the next Jacquerie?

Nathan
--
Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

 
I don't like ordinary people (none / 0) (#5)
by piloti on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 08:13:29 AM PST
They're horrible and it requires too much effort to talk down to their level. I much rather sit at home and go on IRC and chat to other geeks who are also misunderstood genii. That's why I work in computers.

I feel comfortable in situations which conform to my world viewpoint and where I am unlikely to be challenged.


Uh-huh. (none / 0) (#6)
by hauntedattics on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 08:18:48 AM PST
I feel comfortable in situations which conform to my world viewpoint and where I am unlikely to be challenged.

If this is true, then how does that make you any smarter or more open-minded than your fictional Joe Six-Pack? And as for talking 'down to their level', I'd challenge you to talk shop with a plumber, electrician or construction worker for 10 minutes and see if you can keep up. Good luck, Motherboard Boy.




Dear H. A., (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by nathan on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 08:21:56 AM PST
They turn to stone in the daylight.

All best,
Nathan
--
Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

Better than spontaneously combusting, 'spoze [nt] (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 09:35:05 AM PST



 
Too bright light... (none / 0) (#14)
by The Mad Scientist on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 10:37:43 AM PST
...hurts my eyes. Ewwww.


 
Yes but to work with computers (none / 0) (#8)
by piloti on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 09:07:35 AM PST
Requires a special intellectual gift not open to non-geeks. I could if I wanted to spend a couple of years in one of your menial jobs but I doubt that the people doing the menial jobs would have enough of that special type of intelligence to do a MCSE qualification and answer help desk calls about excel macros.


Troll (5.00 / 2) (#27)
by jvance on Tue Feb 5th, 2002 at 12:50:11 PM PST
MCSE? Special? Tech support?

Despite what you may have learned on this site, good trolling requires subtlety.

<CROW>Try again. Try harder.</CROW>


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Adequacy has turned into a cesspool consisting of ... blubbering, superstitious fools arguing with smug, pseudointellectual assholes. -AR

Lots of the adequoids have fallen for it so far (5.00 / 1) (#31)
by piloti on Tue Feb 5th, 2002 at 03:35:12 PM PST
29 comments in this totally troll diary so far, this comment which was as trollish as you can get. Or what about this adequacy editor's pratfall.

I'll stop trolling as it's like shooting fish in barrel here. You guys are out of practice since you left Slashdot.


 
Been there, done that. (5.00 / 2) (#13)
by The Mad Scientist on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 10:35:40 AM PST
If this is true, then how does that make you any smarter or more open-minded than your fictional Joe Six-Pack?

Maybe understanding of the principles of our jobs, instead of just following the tables and conventions? You can learn a lot from "real" workmen. (Clerks and paperworkers typically offer much less of learning opportunity.)

And as for talking 'down to their level', I'd challenge you to talk shop with a plumber, electrician or construction worker for 10 minutes and see if you can keep up.

Done that, loved that. As long as they talk shop and show and explain things and offer stories, it's enjoyable and amusing. (When they get to sport talks, it gets boring to death though.) Guess how I learned the trick with using spent transformer oil in diesel-oil heaters? (It has more BTU per pound, it is harder to ignite but if you put a bit of diesel oil right under the ignition it works just well, and when you know the right people you can get it for free.) Or the trick how to use 380/220V transformer in order to reduce your apparent power consumption? Hadn't talked with real workers much though - both me and my parents are able to do most of things from plumbing to electricity to smaller-scale construction works on our own. For this spring, a family friend promised me a crash-course in arc and flame welding (exchanged it for data rescue from crashed disk) (I will not have the official licence to do welding, but screw the exams and licences, it's more important to be able to do so than to have the "bumazhka"). Also, a high-positioned technician from a satellite-equipment installing company is invited to a cup of tea to my lair to swap some stories and to explain him some concepts with Internet surveillance and monitoring for exchange for a crash course in ultra-high frequency antenna systems.

If you are a tech geek, you have to take it seriously; technology isn't only the computing machines.


no ordinary techie, this fellow (none / 0) (#15)
by nathan on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 11:30:24 AM PST
If you are a tech geek, you have to take it seriously; technology isn't only the computing machines.

Preach it! That's the coolest thing I've read in a while.

Nathan
--
Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

 
Damn. (none / 0) (#16)
by hauntedattics on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 11:42:25 AM PST
You rock. As for the sports talk, listen to that, too. I had to listen in self-defense, and then found that it could be quite interesting. Of course it's a lot more interesting when your team of choice wins...



 
You need a license to weld? (none / 0) (#18)
by Adam Rightmann on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 01:22:56 PM PST
I admit I thought this piloti was a bit of a troll, and is setting himself up for deletion, but the idea that you need a license to be a welder is amazing. Here in America, you can go down to Sears, or even Walmart, and buy yourself welding equipment, MIG/TIG with wire feeder, old school arc with rods, or even oxyacetylene, and then weld to you hearts content. As long as you have George Washington to vouch for your, no one else cares.

I'm happy to know that when I have more free time, I will be able to setup a small welding station in my garage, and melt metal together to my hearts content.


A. Rightmann

It makes sense. (none / 0) (#19)
by tkatchev on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 01:41:14 PM PST
Evil terrorists must be stopped!

For example, what's preventing some dirty terrorist from obtaining welding equipment and building weapons of mass destruction in his (or her) garage? Especially with Russian weapons-grade plutonium being sold on every street corner. I'm sure North Korea (or some other terrorist-sponsoring country) would be overjoyed to find that you can buy dangerous equipment with no safety checks whatsoever.


--
Peace and much love...




 
Amazed (none / 0) (#26)
by Right Hand Man on Tue Feb 5th, 2002 at 11:09:25 AM PST
I too am amazed by this license to weld requirement. I though the ability to weld was something that was simply a part of being a human being, something people were born with. Surely there are others out there who have broken some piece of their tractor and had to perform emergency welding in the field?

Again I think we are witnessing the encroachment of liberalism. First we have a diary entry that claims that there is a country where you cannot fish unless you own a stretch of water, now we find someone who claims he needs a license to weld. Why not just slap on a pair of manacles and give the key to your government?

Next we'll read that there is a country that makes its citizens get state approval before planting corn.


-------------------------
"Keep your bible open and your powder dry."

 
Hmmm (none / 0) (#10)
by dmg on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 09:56:38 AM PST
What if you run a large corporation and still find time to post here ?

time to give a Newtonian demonstration - of a bullet, its mass and its acceleration.
-- MC Hawking

Actually, (none / 0) (#11)
by tkatchev on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 10:07:37 AM PST
Running a large corporation is probably a very easy and relaxing job -- you'd probably have an army of cronies ready at your side, primed to do anything from wiping your nose to laying out complex management plans.


--
Peace and much love...




precisely my point. (none / 0) (#25)
by dmg on Tue Feb 5th, 2002 at 08:05:29 AM PST
Running a large corporation is probably a very easy and relaxing job

One of my relatives is the CEO of an extremely large corporation. His typical day is something like:
  • Go to the office at 9:30am. Read financial press for 2 hours.
  • 11:30am - meeting where underlings tell him what has happened in the financial markets.
  • 1pm -4pm Lunch with a succession of clients and suppliers.
  • 4-6 pm signing bits of paper put in front of him.

    Occasionally, just very occasionally (much like a Unix sysadmin) he is called upon to do some work that requires his extensive abilities. But nine days out of ten are as I have described above.

    Nice work if you can get it.

    time to give a Newtonian demonstration - of a bullet, its mass and its acceleration.
    -- MC Hawking

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    If you run a large corporation (none / 0) (#12)
    by piloti on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 10:23:32 AM PST
    Surely you have the time and money to do something more worthwhile like sexually harass your staff or dealing in your stock before your company goes under due to 'accounting irregularaties'.


     
    You are mistaken. (5.00 / 2) (#17)
    by elenchos on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 01:16:18 PM PST
    You are not a genius, and in fact are not a member of the intellectual elite. This is an easy mistake to make, given your limited thinking ability. Moreover, you are socially maladjusted and perhaps have some other nerosis, likely paranoia, that is distorting your construct of reality. If these psychiatric problems were cured, you would realize that you are no different than these supposedly mundane people you feel alienated from.

    You can look to Adequacy.org for evidence of what life is like for those who really do have powerful intellects and the capacity to use that intellect. We find life both easy and constantly enjoyable. After all, we are surrounded not by competitors, but people of lesser ability, who need us, appreciate us and never cease to find new ways of showing their gratitude. We do not feel alienated, we feel lucky!

    Clearly, if life is not going well for you, it must mean that you are not smart. Not only that, but your defective thinking has incorrectly told you that you are smart. This is more common than you think: most people don't have the ability to accurately guage their own prowess, and their errors are almost always on the high side. Again, do a reality check. Is your life successful? If not, you are cannot be a genius, at least not a functioning one; the upshot is that you are still mundane. There's nothing wrong with being mundane, you know. There is something wrong with putting down others like yourself, though. Be nice, please.

    I do like how you spelled "lobatomy" though. It's like when someone writes "your a moreon!" Heh. That one makes me chuckle every time.


    I do, I do, I do
    --Bikini Kill


    It's such a tired old complaint, isn't it? (none / 0) (#20)
    by RobotSlave on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 02:46:08 PM PST
    Ah, yes, the malaise of the bourgeois.

    It's been well understood for centuries, and yet the bourgeois continue to suffer. Why? Because though they read about it time and time again, they fail every time to recognize themselves in the description, or simply refuse to accept it. So typical.

    You have to wonder why Sinclair Lewis bothered at all. He managed to raise a bit of a stir, sure, but the bourgeois were uncomfortable with such direct portrayal, and quickly rejected him for the more flattering portraits offered by his contemporaries.

    Gatsby. Pfft. I spit on that cheap, cloying Gatsby novel.


    © 2002, RobotSlave. You may not reproduce this material, in whole or in part, without written permission of the owner.

     
    Thats a very good point (none / 0) (#21)
    by PotatoError on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 06:53:04 PM PST
    It was one critism I had with the film the Matrix - why did they want to "free" the humans? Everyone on earth living in a false environment was just as happy as if they were "free".
    <<JUMP! POGO POGO POGO BOUNCE! POGO POGO POGO>>

    Simple. (none / 0) (#23)
    by gcsb on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 10:32:09 PM PST
    The reason they wanted to free them is that, like most liberals, they want to drag people away from their happy lives into one of misery and poverty.

    Which pill would you take? And how do you know it's not Rophynol?

    All the best,
    gcsb.


    Sig is under re-construction...do not panic.

    heh (none / 0) (#24)
    by PotatoError on Tue Feb 5th, 2002 at 07:14:18 AM PST
    "Which pill would you take? And how do you know it's not Rophynol?"

    Thats great!
    <<JUMP! POGO POGO POGO BOUNCE! POGO POGO POGO>>

     
    Sounds like... (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by poltroon on Mon Feb 4th, 2002 at 09:51:55 PM PST
    ...you think mind power is measured by a combination of net worth, dominion, and geekiness. In other words: Bill Gatesness. Since there's only one of him, you've wisely chosen to give up. Real geniuses, like Emily Dickinson, Cindy Sherman, and Louise Bourgeoise, never had to resort to running a corporation, nor whiling away their days in a nest of crumbs before a TV.


     

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