Re-re-re-rediscovering the stupidity of most people

[grenadier32]

Every now and then I witness a reminder of just how far outside the mainstream I am.

It usually comes in the form of commercials before a movie in a theater. I see shallow gender stereotypes, fetishization of stupidity (as myopian8 aptly put it, "Those people are voters!"), sports obsessions, and oversimplification of real issues. And it seems dumb to me

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[era_strife]

at my job i make about 100-150 phone calls a day scheduling safety checks on people's meters for the gas company. i'm a legitimate gas company employee doing them a necessary service. a service we only have to perform once every five years. a lot of people are fine, but most of the time, these people are literally the scum of the earth. they're stupid, they're belligerent, they're unbelievably self-centred in ways that don't even make sense-- you wouldn't believe if i told you how many people i called over the summer who went into a goddamned tirade about how four hours was an ETERNITY and they would absolutely not be sacrificing that much time with their children in the summer for *me.* as though i, out of the darkest most evil parts of my heart, am doing this just to inconvenience them.

i am not authorized to remind them that if they do, in fact, have a gas leak, their precious idiot-spawn would likely die in a fiery explosion, and that if they didn't, it wouldn't matter anyway because growing up with parents *that* stupid, they don't have much chance for survival past the age of 15 anyway.

these people swear at me, hang up on me, insult me, tell me i'm worthless and stupid, and then endanger their own families because it's "too hard" to sit around for a few hours to get their gas meter checked out. the only solution is to sit back and watch them die like fruit flies as life gets harder, because i really do believe this world is falling apart and when it takes some effort and integrity to make it, these people will be weeded out by nature.