Sanya wrote:
OK.
let me give you a hypothetical. you are an individual that they might call 'mentally gifted'. you are sent, through misunderstandings and bureaucratic mishaps in paperwork, to a specialized education program that focuses on children with learning disabilities or such or, otherwise, simply a lack of intelligence. this education program is akin to a boarding school. you try to connect with any of the other children around you, you try to talk to them about what is on your mind, you really try your hardest to speak. you can, on some basic level of pure surface, words on their own. but you notice the barrier of simple groundwork all too often. you know more than them, and you understand more than them, about the things around you, and about the connection of what you see and experience and can connect to anything else - they lack this groundwork for being able to connect, and it really tires you out and wears you out that, whenever you try to communicate on a real, deeper level than shallow nothingness, that wall, border is hit. it stresses you out a lot, you are necessarily isolated because none of them understand most or any of the things you say, or 'speak your language' (in a non-literal sense), because they do not and cannot know how to do so. you simply do not belong in that place, there was a mix-up. and so you are very upset about this and the lack of 'connectability' of any kind between you and any of the other children, and you speak to the higher-ups. you talk about this problem, and you talk about the difference in groundwork, the difference in knowledge, the difference in focus, the difference in ability. and the response is: "here, we have this magic pill that will destroy some of your brain cells. you just swallow it regularly for a while and that difference in knowledge and groundwork won't be something that you even notice or will ever have to think about anymore - you won't know."
you live in a place full of blind people. you talk about the beauty, the experience of, everything, blending. and you are told, in response, to make yourself blind because you see more than them. you live in a place full of deaf people, and you love music so much that you don't even words for it. and you are told that, "look, here is a solution to not being able to connect to the others - it's that you will never 'have to' experience music again. and so then your problems about speaking a foreign language with people who cannot experience the beauty of music due to being born deaf... they're gone, right? music is the problem here, clearly. you being able to experience it is the problem, because, surely, them experiencing less than you do means that you have to cripple yourself, too."
what kind of logic is that?