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Me – this cartoon is funny
Inner self – no
Me – this cartoon is funny
Inner self – yes
Me –
Inner self – this cartoon IS funny š
I think, therefore I’m an idiot!
Stage 2:
I think, therefore I’m a chicken
Stage 3:
I’m an idiot…
…and a chicken. Hmmm.
Nice sense of humor!
I beg to differ…most of the idiots I come across are blithely self-UNaware (this is, at least in part, what *makes them idiots.*)
stage 1: denial
stage 2: acknowledgement
stage 3: acceptance
Stage 4: Everyone’s an idiot.
I find this cartoon to be a profound illustration of humility, the kind Socrates demonstrated when he said, “All I know is that I know nothing.”
Awesome. ;D
Dear master (passed) Wang Tsing said to me once: “in Taoism we have a saying: If I think you are an idiot, the idiot is myself. If I think IĀ“m the idiot, then (perhaps) no one is an idiot”.
Dunning-Kruger Effect: the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, because they don’t know enough to realize they’re not experts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DunningāKruger_effect