Look, I usually operate on the assumption that everyone around me is, for the most part, dumber than me, far less aware of the world than me, and possesses much less curiosity. I don't think that's a bad way to go for my part - it gives me swagger and confidence. I balance it out by constantly questioning my conclusions and assumptions - even doing things as crazy as considering other people's ideas. But not often.
Some people might laugh at this comic. If you pressed them about it, maybe people would tell you they consider it a good thing if this comic was really how things were. That the average Joe was pondering and thinking critically about the world. I could not disagree more. The thought that this is how everyone actually thinks mildly disturbs me. I prefer to think that everyone is just content to live out their lives in a vague awareness of the presence of greater knowledge and purpose, but not motivated to seek it out. Perhaps they aren't even aware of it.
If people really are as active of thinkers as this comic implies, they are all profoundly stupid. Stupid because they are all reaching vastly different conclusions about the world. The world only works the one way. Give me a nation of nonparticipants over a nation that tries to think and just gets it wrong over and over and over until it dies. Oh wait. That second one. That's exactly what we're doing.
I guess it shouldn't disturb me, because the truth is, when everyone is a deep-thinker, no one is. A flock full of sheep that think they aren't sheep are still sheep. That's us. So I guess I will continue to sleep peacefully, knowing that everyone really is as stupid as they appear, despite what they say and despite what they write on their blogs.
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