I get it, I have those tendencies too but I come by them honestly because my Boomer dad was that guy. Still is. But he wasn’t particularly smart or precocious, a high-school dropout actually. Blue collar guy, assiduously honest and hard working… but average.
Bunch of people, mostly old dudes, have a fundamental aversion to not being the smartest person in the room.
Talk about hitting the nail on the head. And where does this come from? We all know that guy. He’s our dad, or whoever - but we all know at least one. So it’s nearly ubiquitous. What I wonder is: what is this a product of? From where does this arise?
I thought it was going to be some kind of spider meme.
This is my shocked Pikachu face. Jokes on them, I haven’t used Facebook since I deleted it with prejudice in 2007.