24 Jan
2022
24 Jan
'22
10:07 p.m.
On 1/24/22 2:50 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
Yes, surely that is the case.
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.
Yup. We're very much on the same page. I've just succumbed to
society's of "weird" == "bad".
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.
Yes, that's true, no doubt.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA