It is an odd thing to simultaneously feel like a reasonably intelligent deep thinker, and the village idiot. Lack of validation becomes that feeling. Lack of feedback and engagement with my thinking. It is a natural consequence of most people not thinking at the levels I do about reality, from first principles. I suppose. I am being out of phase with the crowd’s cognitive tempo.

So my lived experience is one of feeling rather dumb. Perhaps that is why most deep thinkers keep their mouths shut. To speak is self-alienating. The irony is that this silence then reinforces the illusion that such thinking is rare or non-existent. So I will continue to write and speak my crazy thoughts.

I think that after that heart-felt and necessary "woe-is-me" text, I need to clarify that I do not consider those who do not engage with my ideas as "less intelligent than me". Intellectually lazy, perhaps. But not like drooling morons compared to me. It is not the average persons capacity that lacks, it is their willingness to engage with deep thinking.

I do not consider myself better or worse than anyone else. If I did, that would betray my non-dual understanding of reality. I consider myself a different configuration of the same as everyone else.

"Same but different".