Originally Posted by
spockman
My guess is that you are 16 or so and feel disillusioned. You probably read Johan Vasquez or some similar outlet. Being a thinker is a positive thing, but when you start using the fact that you contemplate a lot as a way to call everyone else stupid you are isolating yourself from a lot of ideas/experiences/people that you will only find with an open mind. In the end, by disregarding lifestyles/opinions of others you are only keeping your own intelligence from expanding. I felt disillusioned a couple years ago, too, I think it is pretty common to feel your particular brand at some point during high school or early college, (I'm sure it comes to people at all phases of life but I imagine that it has different causes and comes with different emotions.) But I found out that, almost invariably, when I got to know people better whom I previously disliked I found I liked them better. People are not so easily divided that categories of 'stupid sheep' and 'deep individualistic people' are enough.