YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW CONCEITED I REALLY AM | 2004-11-27
Some nice person said that my correct opinions were so important that they hated to see me make a fool of myself by going into areas where I am ignorant.
They said I was underming my "authority."
A lot of people spend their whole lives building up their "authority" on a certain subject. If anyone has another opinion on that subject, they say, "Who do you think you are?"
My reply is, "I am Bob Whitaker and I am MUCH smarter than you are."
Then the battle begins.
Some people say I am conceited. They don't know the half of it.
I do not like anybody talking about "undermining my authority" because I don't NEED any authority. I will beat you on facts and I will beat you on logic, or I will lose out on facts and logic.
I am smart enough to win and courageous enough to lose.
I DESPISE the very smell of "authority." If you have a statistical record of curing disease, you are a doctor. If you don't, every degree and Nobel Prize in the world doesn't mean a damned thing to me.
One question people ask when they are talking about conceit is:
"You think you're smarter than anybody else, don't you?"
Yes, I do.
"You think you're right and everybody else is wrong, don't you?"
Yes I do.
"You think the world is just black or white, right or wrong, don't you?"
Exactly. You've read my mind.
And to all the other questions you might ask, the answer is yes.
I believe in the truth, not in Truth. There are a million Truths. There is only one truth.
These Truths that everybody capitalizes are Revelations declared by every schizophremic and sociopath who founds a sect. But in the real world, in the world of life, death, joy and misery, there are two kinds of statements:
1) Those that are right and,
2) Those that are wrong.
And yes, I think I am right and the others are wrong.