Idiotic Logic

I fear people will see me as an idiot.

For what I do.

For what I say.

For what I write.

For how I act.

For what I create and contribute.

But also, I am a harsh judge of others. I’d say I’m fair and objective, but maybe lacking some compassion.

Honestly, I think many people are idiots. At least in some domains. Most people aren’t fully dumb or fully intelligent across all domains. I certainly am not, though there is the rare person who defies nature with a stupidity so profound and all-encompassing that it’s marvelous and captivating to behold. But I digress.

All the above boils down to the following:

I fear that people who are idiots will think I’m an idiot, which is an idiotic proposition, essentially making me an idiot. So I’m calling myself an idiot. But if I’m an idiot, why should I care that my idiot self thinks I’m an idiot? By definition, my own thoughts and opinions are inherently idiotic, so are they even relevant? The premise that I’m a known idiot worrying that my own judgments are idiotic due to the fear that idiots judging me (an idiot) might actually confirm my idiocy, will, if I understand math correctly, which I don’t because I’m an idiot, in fact make me an exponential idiot, or idiot to the idioth degree. See the mathematical proof below.

Or maybe, due to my profound idiocy, I have this math all wrong, and what it really means is….. I’m not an idiot?