Blowing the Cover
There are three types of people in this world. There the intelligence and competent, the unintelligent and incompetent, and the unintelligent and incompetent who try to pretend they are intelligence and competent. Okay, technically, there are also theoretical Columbo-types who pretend to be unintelligent and incompetent when they aren’t, but they are few and far between. Nonetheless, basically, we have the smart, the dumb and the posers.
Smart people have their strengths and weaknesses, but we need them to keep everything working. Dumb people, God bless them, when they have no ambition are, for the most part, harmless. Yes, harmless. They know their limitations and don’t want to fuck anything up so they stay out of things. The problem children are the posers.
Posers are worse than dumb. They do not understand or do not care how much harm they can do by getting involved. Selfish and unsympathetic, they will dress themselves up, learn a few buzzwords and try to pose as a smart person. Then, disaster follows that the smart people and the dumb people have to clean up.
To a smart person, posers are easy to spot. After only a few minutes of dialog, a smart person can tell if someone is like-minded. Are they quick? Are they logical? Are they knowledgeable? Smart people take pride and arrogance in identifying each other. Thus, posers rely on the dumb people and other posers to put them into power and succeed.
Quite often, in a given environment, a poser will run into a smart person. Posers quickly realize that their cover is blown and try to distance themselves from smart people. They will label them elitists and try to convince the dumb and posing to reject them. And often it works. Sadly, smart people are even easier to spot that posers and, thus, easy to stop by a unified poser effort.
This all reveals why Columbo did what he did. Smart, but non-threatening, he snuck in a stopped posers from getting away with murder and made the world better. I think we all need to go back and watch some episodes to see how it’s done.
Smart people have their strengths and weaknesses, but we need them to keep everything working. Dumb people, God bless them, when they have no ambition are, for the most part, harmless. Yes, harmless. They know their limitations and don’t want to fuck anything up so they stay out of things. The problem children are the posers.
Posers are worse than dumb. They do not understand or do not care how much harm they can do by getting involved. Selfish and unsympathetic, they will dress themselves up, learn a few buzzwords and try to pose as a smart person. Then, disaster follows that the smart people and the dumb people have to clean up.
To a smart person, posers are easy to spot. After only a few minutes of dialog, a smart person can tell if someone is like-minded. Are they quick? Are they logical? Are they knowledgeable? Smart people take pride and arrogance in identifying each other. Thus, posers rely on the dumb people and other posers to put them into power and succeed.
Quite often, in a given environment, a poser will run into a smart person. Posers quickly realize that their cover is blown and try to distance themselves from smart people. They will label them elitists and try to convince the dumb and posing to reject them. And often it works. Sadly, smart people are even easier to spot that posers and, thus, easy to stop by a unified poser effort.
This all reveals why Columbo did what he did. Smart, but non-threatening, he snuck in a stopped posers from getting away with murder and made the world better. I think we all need to go back and watch some episodes to see how it’s done.
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