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[Quickly Learning Disappointment in the Human Race]
June 27th, 2007Quick Learning
I’ve always considered myself to be a quick learner. When presented with a new task of some sort I almost never look into it beforehand. I find it exceedingly rare that when I start attempting something I’ll be unable to finish it. Whether it be setting up an application, performing some new process, or learning semantics, I can almost always fumble my way through it and figure it out as I go along. There are still obvious Learning Curves that need to be accounted for, but given exceedingly difficult projects I’m almost always capable of doing it quickly.
Anyway, for a long time I didn’t really pride myself in this fact. It seemed that pretty much everyone was capable of doing something if it’s in their vein of knowledge. I’m a geek by trade and hobby. Both at work and school I am semi-surrounded by technically-oriented individuals. When I am working with these individuals I always expect them to be able to steam through small processes and come out with the answer in a short amount of time. It was rather recently that I realized that it shouldn’t be presumed. I have a good amount of knowledge in how computers work, and I recognize patterns in applications and thus can usually procure the necessary information from any given program. This is not as common as I thought.
It’s pretty depressing.
My problem is that I’ve been some less social than the standard American and have gained some sort of blind-misunderstanding on how the “average American” thinks. I’m losing faith in the Human race.
Disappointment in the Human Race
I guess I’ve been having a bit of an arrogant streak. Strictly speaking, I’ve become entirely disappointed in the human race. Sure, we’ve done some great things. We learned how the solar system works and a great deal of information about our surroundings. But in the grand scheme of things, I think our race is failing. I’m becoming more of a believer in Mike Judge’s theatrical simulation of the future. Just check out any internet gathering site, whether it be MySpace, IRC, or blog comments.
I’d like to comment a bit about how my comments are somewhat scarce, they are at least the upper echelon as far as blog comments are considered.
These social congregations are fraught with hatred, poor grammar, poor education, and bigotry. Come on, people.
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