It has come to my attention that pretty much everything that I do is irrelevant.
OK, well that seems like a statement of self-pity, and it probably is to some extent. It’s certainly not an earth-shattering announcement, or some divine revelation. It’s just a statement of fact.
So, since no one is paying the least amount of attention, I am going to post anyway, just for my own sake, my general observations and experience of life.
I have noticed that people, in general, can do everything “right”, i.e. go to school, get good grades, work very hard, join all the right groups, etc. In other words, all of the things we are taught growing up will make you a better person and successful. Yet they never come close to achieving even a little portion of wealth or success. It doesn’t matter how “intelligent” you are, how insightful you are, if you “conform” or submit to authority(ies), or rebel against. Your inventions, thoughts, writings, songs are never good enough. No matter if they are objectively good or not, genius and mediocrity are both subjected to the dustbin as trash. Yet “people” seem to come out of nowhere, having done nothing of note, ever, suddenly getting millions of dollars for a book deal, or a huge contract as a “speaker” or “influencer” or “media personality”. People who seem, as a general rule, to lack any sort of actual or perceived intelligence or any skills whatsoever. People who are making literal millions doing things that any thinking person could do, possibly much, much better, for a tenth of the wage.
Don’t get me wrong: I am hardly the hard working, intelligent, good grade getting, go getting protagonist in a story of downtrodden woe. Being a bit of a slacker, I have never really “worked hard”. Digging ditches, doing construction, and laboring at a job doesn’t count in that context since it is “hard work” for wages, rather than “working hard” to achieve a “goal”. Mostly not a joiner of clubs or social organizations because of being an introvert who prefers alone time with a book to partying with “friends”. Also rather boring, for the most part, and I enjoy that lack of controversy and conflict.
I would personally not be averse to someone who would pull me out of my cave in the desert, clean me up and put me in a commentator’s spot at FOX news or CNN for millions of dollars. I certainly wouldn’t do any worse at the job of reading lines from a teleprompter than most of the idiots we are forced to see in that position, and I am sure anyone else could do just as well. If anyone bothers to read this and would like to have that conversation about the “skills” or “charisma” of media personalities, it would certainly be welcome. Of note, some people are a general exception, such as Tucker Carlson for example. But where is HE now?
So, why?
Why do idiots make millions, and hardworking, intelligent people make emails in a cubical for rice and beans?