Well welcome my challenged fellow. Welcome to the human condition 101. Make yourself restful. But don't relax! (another contradiction!) Since while you need a clear mind, you will also need your wits, most apparently.
Yes, being stupid and useful matches quit right in public culture. Indeed, one may call it a perfect paring.
How that can be? How is such a thing is even possible in this quit perfect (sarcasm, another of those weird thingies being about contradiction of sth) world?
My explanation will be extensive - and will seem very very patronizing. That is so, because it truly is a childish thing to have to discuss, so relax on your pride for a bit. It will only be in the way.
And as already hinted, I would be lying if I said this was a good question. It is not. So not. But I will answer comprehensibly, nevertheless. But that will, in the beginning, make this seem all the more patronizing. Since the puzzles times you know. But not fully, not in a way that you would have known to put them together. This, I will teach,
See, even in a small group of people, culture often does not rest on reason, but feelings. Which quit naturally is the case, since actually arguing everything is not only extremely resource-extensive and wasteful (look what they did to Sociology or Philosophy, it is a big shame, really), it also, in principle, misses the point, since the point is in the end always about the feels - human literally only care about them, ultimately. And those feelings express themselves in judgement. While those judgement assume the role of reason.
However, not reason, only judgement carries social weight!
As a consequence, not argument, but feels determine social dynamics. And this goes for a group where everyone can talk to everyone. Imagine a group where no one talks to anyone but everyone talks about someone.
This is public culture.
As a rule of thumb, public culture is the worst of personal culture times 10, minus 90% of the good parts pf personal culture. It really is a worst case scenario of culture.
Humans are not made for that crap.
Now imagine this irrational beast of a dynamic of judgement meeting reason.
Harmony! Yeah now, are you freaking brain-damaged? Of course not. This is like a child which had a stake smashed into his head is now supposed to be the wise learder of the world.
The child is as dumb as a peace of wood. Or bread. Or... It is very very dumb. But we can stil whisper into its ears. Make it useful. But it never will be wise.
There is so much more to say and explain. But I think you are, in spite of your intellectual flaws, which we of course all have, to some degree, able to reason. So I think this should be enough for you to start doing so.
Good lucK!
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