The world is a dichotomy of different tastes, opinions, and conclusions. it's what makes the world go round.
Some people come in and sit at my bar and tell me what an idiot i am (i couldn't agree more), but then ten minutes later, someone else walks in and says i'm half-smart (usually people high on metaphetamine or PCP). Over the course of any given night, many girls won't even give me the time of day or glance in my direction even if the room was on fire and i was the only one holding the fire extinguisher. But then a girl will walk in, sit down at the bar, and make puppy eyes at me all night long. There is no rhyme or reason to any of this.
During the same evening, someone will tell me i'm the most boring, most monotonous person they have ever met, but then someone else will walk in and say you are the most funny person ever (usually drunk & lonely women from the midwest..the Ohio Valley). Everyone has different opinons and draw different conclusions--even when given the same set of circmunstances to evaluate.
It's bizarre, it's perplexing, it's inconsistent, but it's what makes the world go around. Everyone draws their their own set of conclusions, and some people draw a different set of conclusions about the same thing after as little as 24 hours, after they've been given enough time to reassess their conclusions.
No one is totally stupid, nor totally brilliant. Everyone is somewhere in-between. Pick the craziest, most mad, most fanatical person you personally know on DR1 and then re-read everything they've ever said. for every ten things they've said that dumbfounds and disturbs and offends you, there is always one or two shinning instances of brilliance and truth in their statements or conclusions. No one--well, maybe a few people--can be shining examples of stupidity, ignorance, and inconsistency (except for me). Likewise, no one can be a brilliant example of consistency, logic, and infallible reasoning abilities. People fall somewhere in-between. i know that i fall on the lower end of the intelligence scale, but i've managed to come to terms with it and make it work for me. After all, if you're going to be stupid, you better be tough.
By the way, i'm Dominican.
Frank