It is quite devastating when you see people lacking even the most basic or common of knowledge. No wonder the world is in a state that it is in. You can't expect people to make changes when they barely even know how the world works.
I'm horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I'm wrong, right? Because it's math and I'm always wrong.
Sooooo...yeah. I dated someone once who was brilliant in some ways, and not in others, but I very much loved them still, though our intellectual conversations were kept to a minimum.
After watching a particularly violent Western movie where a lot of horses were injured, shot, or killed, she seemed kind of disturbed. She was dead quiet after leaving the theater, and just seemed like she was thinking through it all and processing the story.
Halfway through the drive home, out of nowhere she asks "Where do all the horses go?"
The question kind of threw me, and waited a second to process what she had just asked me. I thought I misheard her, and there was a noticably uncomfortable gap in me reply.
"What? How do you mean?"
"Where do all the horses go after the movie? Like, what do they do with all the dead horses?"
In that moment, I froze, and I started to kind of chuckle as I thought she was making a joke. Then I realized she was serious. A 30-year old was asking me this question. A self-admitted movie buff, she called herself.
It was then that I knew this relationship wasn't viable long-term.
TBF there were some movies in the past where horses died during production (I believe Ben Hur was one of them). That's why nowadays there is a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed making the movie.
And people wonder why America is the way it is. A grown ass adult married woman can’t even grasp the concept of mph. The school system has majorly failed this woman. It’s like even the concept of critical thinking has been eradicated.
I'm sure she's a nice girl, but I don't think I could bear such a large intellectual gap for too long. Stuff like this becomes frustrating quite quickly. But then again, in their case it might not be too big of a gap anyway. Understanding the basic principles behind measuring units does not make him Einstein.
