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Some snarky quotes from "The 2,548 best Things Anybody Ever Said." Snarky comments can be a lot of fun, but calling someone stupid, describing them as idiots or morons without stating why you think they are stupid, idiotic or moronic doesn't really make you snarky as much as just a condescending person.
In my opinion wit or snark engages with ideas, habits or practices with a sense of questioning the absurd in the criticized subject. Condescension just dismisses the person and ideas/habits/practices as beneath engagement. Condescension is not witty, not snarky, it is just dismissive and smug. As you can probably gather by now, I am not a fan of condescension. The Condescending are most deserving or mockery and verbal taunting. Once they are made to feel stupid, become the subject of laughter from others, their condescension usually pivots to anger. If they believe they can exercise their anger over you without risk, they will. If they can't, they will usually go searching for more tribal members to try and use the mob to intimate you, if they fail they will wait. In the waiting might be your one small window of opportunity to deliver the infamous "red pill" not so much as to persuade them to your point of view but rather just to invite them to question their once held unquestioned condescending convictions. I doubt we are headed into an era where changed minds or hearts happens more frequently, I think the mobs will prevail too often. The internet seems to be the current arena for the most frequent mob violence against others. It is the worst part of internet venturing, something meant to connect others used to isolate, silence or destroy them instead. Just Tuesday morning rambling. On to the quotes and a barn. Thanks for being here. 😊
The difference between stupidity & genius is that genius has it limits. - Unknown
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix
Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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