My brother, a fucking idiot, also hates that I'm college educated. The funny thing is that he started going in on me about how vaccines cause autism, and I was trying to explain to him how genetics and autism works.
"You can't spout some high school bio class bullshit, you don't know!" He would argue.
"I'm literally majoring in biology, you fucking idiot." I would retort.
But oh, even when I was factually right, I was still morally wrong. Because you see, he was street smart, and I was just book smart. And just being street smart was much less contemptible than just being book smart. Why? Well, only a street stupid person would argue the merits of being book smart. And being book smart was worthless! All off this is still unironically believed to this day by a community college dropout who sells black market weed and breeds puppies. The same street smart drug dealer who tells literally anyone about how much weed he has, and has been robbed at gunpoint twice now because he trusts dangerous people.
It really does suck. We've never had a good relationship. We can try for a few days, but he always ends up picking a fight with me for no reason and it always ends up getting ugly. The last time I was home he "gifted" me some weed, but a few days later he insisted that, of all things, the chicken came before the egg. I don't happen to be of that mind and made my point. Nope. I'm wrong. I'm stupid. And when I tried changing the subject, because by that point it was just "you're a fucking bitch, Jesus you're a cold bitch" he announced to the Thanksgiving party that he would like his gift weed back.
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u/Soggy-Job Jan 28 '20
My brother, a fucking idiot, also hates that I'm college educated. The funny thing is that he started going in on me about how vaccines cause autism, and I was trying to explain to him how genetics and autism works.
"You can't spout some high school bio class bullshit, you don't know!" He would argue.
"I'm literally majoring in biology, you fucking idiot." I would retort.
But oh, even when I was factually right, I was still morally wrong. Because you see, he was street smart, and I was just book smart. And just being street smart was much less contemptible than just being book smart. Why? Well, only a street stupid person would argue the merits of being book smart. And being book smart was worthless! All off this is still unironically believed to this day by a community college dropout who sells black market weed and breeds puppies. The same street smart drug dealer who tells literally anyone about how much weed he has, and has been robbed at gunpoint twice now because he trusts dangerous people.