Comments on: Am I Stuck Up?

By: tadpoly

tadpoly — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:38:13 +0000

Good argument, you are right about a difference between a skill and knowing something that should be general knowledge in our culture. But some people really don’t know about cooking healthy, they’ve never been exposed to it and are from a culture that eschews anything unfamiliar. Then you find someone like that here or there that is openminded, teach them, and learn what you can from them.
“Like just hearing about bad-for-you chemicals in just about every product you put on your body, or how using plastic bags is bad for the environment or how many weird things are in prepackaged food and how it’s just better (and easy) to make it yourself.”
A lot of folks just don’t believe its so, not scientifically literate to understand, they are not going to listen whatevr you try to teach.

By: Sweet Nez

Sweet Nez — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:42:41 +0000

Heh, yeah, I suppose I am being a prissy little bitch. It’s not that I think I’m smarter than everyone else, I just think I have too much time on my hands. So I read and learn a lot.

But I also understand the difference between knowing a skill and knowing what’s going on in the world around you. Of course not everyone knows how to cook or weld metal, but everyone (at least the non impoverished countries) knows that smoking cigarettes is bad for you. One is a skill that you learn when you need to/because you want to, while the other is general knowledge that has been put out there for the populace to know. And it’s a pretty important thing to know. You don’t need to know the intricate details as to why it’s bad for you if you don’t want to, but the general knowing of it is something everyone knows. And if you told someone that cigarettes is bad for them and they have no clue what you’re talking about, you’d ask if they had just woken up from a coma or are from the past. You would judge them. And then you would go on to explain how they’re bad for you because you care.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:54:04 +0000

“maybe I’m just being stuck up because I know so much more than the common person.”

I get where you’re coming from, but that phrase is pretty stuck up-sounding.

By: Tadpole

Tadpole — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:17:22 +0000

Not slow, maybe, but different. I see a lot of people in my daily work, and I am also amazed at the things people don’t know that I think are basic knowledge. Cooking, to me, comes natural, and yes it’s cheaper and just as easy to make things from scratch, but give people a break who don’t know, or have just learned something you’ve known for years. At least they are trying something new, to them. I have friends who can weld, fix cars, tell me how to maintain my house, but couldn’t even cook beans! They’ve spent their time learning different things than I have. From their perspective, I am really retarded.
You can help teach the unhip folks the things they need to know, and the reasons they need to know….