>>24821286
This is the parody version of a truth, but he's not wrong in claiming that if you're smart your baseline for "meaningful" conversation is higher and meeting interesting people becomes harder, which in turn makes you feel very lonely.
The other extremely depressing thing is being surrounded by idiots. At school, on the workplace, in uni, etc. you can be as charitable and empathetic as you want but you will give in to being angry or sad if you have to spend 30+ years of your life having to explain yourself through things that seem obvious to you only to register that other people not thinking at your same pace. You will also witness on an everyday basis people communicating and failing - and think that you could have express what they wanted to say better, faster, in a way that would solve whatever problem quicker and more effectively. In the beginning you will make effort to help others, but to keep this going for your whole life requires immense patience, and the reserve of stupid people unable to communicate or explain themselves is always on the rise. I don't even think that they're less complex than me, and I firmly believe we feel things in very similar way and in similar intensity - but my capacity to talk about what I feel (or what others feel), understand it and communicate it in an effective way is superior and this makes communication with others very very difficult sometimes.
You get depressed not because you understand things better, but because other people don't. This feels very lonely and very sad.
