It's hard for me to relate to people who don't see the world through red-pill colored glasses

I just don't understand them.

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I’ve always processed information quicker than the average person.

I first noticed this in school when I was always one of the first people to finish a test and then I would just sit there twiddling my thumbs, waiting for others to finish.

Throughout my life, I’ve always just been able to pick up on things quicker - not all things, but enough things where it was noticeable.

Even when I joined the Libertarians, I was told by people who were teaching me different principles that most people don’t come along as fast as I do - that I came further in a few months than most people do in years.

I also think the psychology helps in regard to predicting what groups will do, because it taught me to quickly assess the way people would behave based on their emotional thinking, rather than rational thinking.

I spent a decade analyzing how human beings would behave in a social system before I started focusing my energy and attention on culture and politics.

I’m not suggesting that I’m smarter than other people (ok, I’m above average) but there are just some things that it’s much easier for me to wrap my head around and predict. I’m not suggesting it makes me better than anyone, it’s just an odd happenstance of my reality and the way my particular brain works.

I have to be focused on it and paying attention to it. I can’t predict something that I’m not aware of, or just don’t care enough about to look at. So that’s a limitation. But if I’m focused on it and looking at it, it’s very easy for me to predict - with a reasonably high degree of accuracy - what will happen. Not 100%, but really high. People behave predictably - once you know the patterns, you can’t unsee them.

Not all smart people have this ability - some of them might be able to memorize large amounts of information, but don’t know people worth a lick.

But everything is a blessing and a curse.

With the political and cultural stuff, I feel like where my head is at is usually at least 6 months further ahead of where most people are, sometimes it’s a year ahead or more.

What that means is that, because I’ve been immersed in the culture war every day for almost three years, I can see what’s going to happen months ahead of when other people see it.

I try to do this from a detached perspective. I’m not a tribalist - I think both sides are crazy. I don’t consider myself a player in the culture war as much as I am a detached observer of the culture war. Because I think both sides are corrupt I don’t really care who wins, as long as I can be left alone in New Hampshire.

So I watch. I don’t have allegiances. I don’t work for advocacy groups. I judge people by their behaviors, not based on what team they are playing for or the sweet nothings they whisper in their supporters’ ears.

And because of all that, I’m one of those people - and my receipts on Twitter will back me up - that predicts what will happen long before most others see it.

When you can do that, people think you’re crazy for it.

Or they don’t understand enough to perceive the nuance of the points you’re making.

And sometimes they get so pissed at you for telling them things are coming that they don’t want to hear that they cancel you.

You never get an apology six months later when you were proven right, by the way.

I’ve gotten so used to hearing so much from the people who can’t see what I see that I’ve just found it incredibly difficult to relate to them.

Those could be people who are sort of red-pilled but have trouble seeing the long game.

Those could be people who still buy into the machine’s propaganda.

I find it hard to relate to them.

I find it difficult to communicate with them when I’m making connections they can’t make.

It’s like we are speaking two different languages.

It’s frustrating for me, and I think it’s frustrating for them too.

I can literally understand and predict the behaviors these people will act out and what that means for the group they are a part of based on their values, their motivations, their fears, etc.

But I have trouble carrying on a conversation with them because when they share their perspective with me, all I can see is the things they don’t see yet.

So whenever I’m talking to someone who fits into this group (and most of the people I surround myself with today to not), I find myself in a position of listening to try to understand how they perceive the world first, and then talking to them as if I agree with their perception when I may not, because I’m six months ahead of them in my head.

I find it’s just easier to agree with the way they see the world, rather than to try to disrupt it.

Disruption usually just causes arguments. And our perspectives are too different to come to any sort of agreement.

So, you don’t argue. Because what’s the point?

And because you’re not able to share your perspective with them, they may feel like they relate to you (you’ve just pretended to be the person they need you to be), but you don’t feel like you relate to them.

You don’t realize how few people are really hinged into reality until you realize just how many people you’ve stopped relating to.

I wonder if it’s always been this way.

Part of me is upset I didn’t have these realizations earlier in life.

But the other part of me is happy I go to spend the first several decades with easier relationships because there wasn’t the giant red-pill standing between us.

They say your friends are better after you red-pill, and I do agree that’s true.

The relationships you develop are more meaningful. It’s a perk.

But the reason it’s more meaningful is that there are fewer of you, and you need each other to keep yourself sane.

Do you have this experience?

Leave a comment and let me know.