Hercules and potato sack people

If you pulled up this post, I suspect you have a hero complex. You think you must take care of other adults who are weak and stupid in comparison to you. While they may well be weaker and dumber than you are, they have concluded that the best way for them to get by in life is to act even weaker and dumber than what they are for attention, gains, and benefits; love, pity, and payouts: “There was no way for me to know that the coffee would be THAT HOT!” “I didn’t know Facebook would STORE my information…. (even though if it had lost it, I’d be VERY upset because I use it as my photo album backup to save space on my laptop), and now I’m upset and need someone to PAY ME MONEY to get over my upset and shock.”

There should be a law on how stupid an adult is allowed to get before others are allowed to get on in rolling on the floor laughing state… And are legally allowed to abuse their incredible level of stupidity for profit and gain. “Hey. You’re not currently drooling; you were smart enough to know this.”

Acting like you’re too stupid to know is a life strategy in itself.

Acting dumb is something that people who admire intelligence never stoop to. That’s why they’d never guess many people play up their level of stupidity for a number of gains; love, care, attention, pity, compassion, and, as mentioned, payouts and benefits. They act like over-grown children and blame daddy (smart people) for not taking better care of them. “We didn’t know Covid vaccines are not 100% effective, and we went visit nan, who was vaccinated, and nan died – it’s your fault. What masks? We didn’t want to make her feel like she couldn’t trust us. We need you to pay for this.”

Being too stupid to know better relieves a person from having personal responsibility over their life’s choices and, indeed, deadly mistakes. They can always point a finger at smart people and insist whatever they did wrong is someone else’s fault.

You know how you can waste your breath on a person who will never change?

You know that group of people who come to you in dire need of your advice? They act all grateful for your attention and wisdom, but NEVER take ANY action over any advice you’ve ever given them. First of all, they don’t want to make a personal choice as to WHICH piece of advice to follow through with if you give them options. They want you to choose it for them, even though you give them options as to which one would SUIT their style best – you don’t know them, after all. No, they want you to choose.

Secondly, they want your advice to fail so they can keep asking you for more advice, so they’ll try something you said, and if their problem isn’t too important for them, they’ll semi-deliberately make matters worse for themselves so they can make you feel guilty and get more attention.

Trying to make eager volunteers HELP YOU do what you’re doing, but they ALWAYS misunderstand you?

Do you know people who you need to explain things to over and over and over, and they tend to get it wrong time and time again? How do they almost reverse your advice and then act stupid and surprised that you didn’t like what they did? Then they blame you for not being CLEAR about a detail, something like “wash the whites and the reds, please,” but you failed to mention that a) you want them all CLEAN, and b) you don’t mean the reds and whites to be washed TOGETHER… Considering you were asking “a professional,” It’s just that they “figured” there was a reason for you to want the reds to be washed with the whites, and since you didn’t mention it, it’s your fault.

And why would anyone want to do this when they know all you do is get angry? They love the attention from a superior like a toddler enjoys attention from mom and dad – even if they’re getting into trouble. They also enjoy the power they have over your emotions, so they keep misunderstanding and misquoting you on purpose just to fire you up – they think that means you CARE about them, especially if you keep giving them new chances to get it right. They don’t care if you think they’re stupid; they want to experience you giving them a new chance, flying into anger because of them, and other exciting feelings they can play with.

Probably along with that feeling how you can now feel like the stupid gullible asshole you hate.

The play here is that they act SUPER WILLING to help you, even for free, and it’s hard to find a better deal than that – but they will always mess it up on purpose for the fun of it and at a cost to your cause.

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