24 Jan
2022
24 Jan
'22
8:50 p.m.
On Jan 24, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
All agreed. At issue here is the common negative connotation of the word
"weird", in a society that often views conformism above all else. As a person
who spent the first 1/3 of his life being criticized for being interested in technology
and furthering our understanding of the universe, rather than (for example) watching grown
men chase a ball around in the grass, I'm sensitive to the word and it's most
common connotation.
My life improved considerably when I stopped associating with "the mundanes".
Maybe the folks who you don't want to associate with aren't so much people who
think that your interest are weird, as people who think weirdness is undesirable? I *know*
I'm weird, but I like hanging out with weirdos. Well, not *all* weirdos. There are
weirdos I'd rather not hang out with, and also weirdos whose weirdness I appreciate
without sharing an interest in it.
I think we may share about the same feelings with respect to "the mundanes". I
don't feel a lot of connection to them, and generally prefer to stay in my weird
little bubble of weirdos.
I think that weirdness and creativity necessarily go together. If one is going to come up
with new stuff, I think they necessarily need to be wired a bit differently than the
center-of-the-bell-curve folks who make up most of humanity.
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