Why I can never get along with anybody

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I still go with the OP coming in contact with the wrong people.

I encounter people every day. Very few of them have expressed the opinions he mentioned. One tends to encounter these sorts of opinions on the Internet, rather than in “real life.” Possibly because there’s an anonymity in the Internet which makes people bolder, and sometimes brings out the worst in people.

I bet the OP will ultimately succeed in romance.

Its not your fault, but ...WOW!
Am not talking about religiosity. I am talking about cultural literacy.

Both your family, and your nation's education system massively failed you! Its not your fault.

I still go with the OP coming in contact with the wrong people.

I encounter people every day. Very few of them have expressed the opinions he mentioned. One tends to encounter these sorts of opinions on the Internet, rather than in “real life.” Possibly because there’s an anonymity in the Internet which makes people bolder, and sometimes brings out the worst in people.

I bet the OP will ultimately succeed in romance.

It's because 99% of people these days are extremely stupid. And I just can't tolerate stupidity.

There are just so many idiots across all walks of life and all ends of the political spectrum, ranging from woke SJWs to white supremicists, and from Christians and Muslims who take their religions too seriously to New Age neo-pagan nonsense.

At work today, my coworker was reading a series of texts from her ex claiming that Covid-19 is fake and is just a conspiracy from the government to force people to take vaccines. And as I was driving home, I drove past people with placards saying "forced vaccines are unconstitutional."

I remember one day when I was sitting in a waiting room to see my therapist, and the people sitting next to me started talking about how Donald Trump was appointed by God and that if Hillary Clinton had won the election the US would be a communist country by now. I remember feeling genuinely shocked that actual human beings can be this f*cking stupid!

Last year I was riding with my boss when he went on a tirade about how we should just nuke Iran and Iraq and kill all the Muslims and give their land to the Liberals or the Indians to get them out of our hair.

Here are some examples of the idiotic beliefs many people continue to hold despite all evidence to the contrary:

The Earth is flat.
The Earth is only 6,000 years old.
God specifically created humans of European descent to be superior to the rest of the human species.
Vaccines cause autism.
Evolution is fake.
Essential oils can prevent/cure cancer.
God deliberately created boys with foreskins just so he can tell us to cut them off.
Climate change is fake.
Biological sexes don't exist.
Islam supports gender equality.
Criticism of Islam is racist.
Only white people can be racist.
The Holocaust is fake.
The United States was founded on Judeo-Christian values.
Donald Trump was appointed to be the President of the United States by God himself.
Donald Trump is the true winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The moon landing never happened.
Christians are a prosecuted minority in the United States.
Immigrants are stealing jobs from "real" Americans.
There's a war on Christmas.
America used to be "great", but isn't anymore because of immigrants/Muslims/Atheists/LGBTQ/feminists/liberals/etc.
Kids are being forced to pray Islamic prayers in schools.
The solution to mass shootings is more guns.

Everywhere I go, whether it be online or in person, I find myself surrounded by F*cking morons.

I remember a day a few years ago, when I was substitute teaching in a middle school classroom. The lesson was about the planet Earth. And I overheard a student saying that she doesn't know whether or not to believe if the Earth is round or flat. Of course I don't blame a child for this, but rather I blame all idiotic adults who spread this hogwash.

Is it really any surprise that its so hard for me to find anybody I actually want to be around when so much of the human race is this idiotic?!

Well Dorkseid, You sound like an equal opportunity hater at least, I agree with you on many of the points. One thing I cannot stand is people spreading misinformation when they know better or denying something that is a scientifically proven fact, for example, denying smoking causes cancer and other health problems.

Don't even get me going about anti-vaxers. My thing is, I want to get along with people, I really do but I find many just to be such twits, tools, or lazy, which explains why other then outside of my immediate family, I'm all alone and don't have any friends to speak of.

For me, it's either people really like me or they want to arrange to have me shot.

I'm perfectly fine with people being that removed culturally. If I were lost in the Australian outback, I'd have to rely on people who navigate by singing. I'd also point out that when Sherlock Holmes learned that the Earth went around the Sun, he decided that since this did not seem relevant to his career, he would do his best to forget it.

There's always that one idiot who likes to go on about how their uncle smoked his entire life and lived to his 90s. Because one anecdote is apparently all it takes to topple decades of medical research and makes you know better than every doctor on the planet. Am I right?

I find this idea that everyone should possess basic knowledge of Western culture reeks of cultural imperialism.

How many Americans or Europeans know when Krishna or Zoroaster were born?

This is just ridiculous, people!

I am not asking Hindu Indians to know anything about Christ. That would "imperialism".

Am asking folks in my own culture to know their own culture. Nothing to do with "imperialism".

And besides: asking anyone of any culture to figure out that dates that end with "before Christ" are "before Christ" is not asking much.

I am not blaming Joe. I am blaming the education system over there. Citizens should know certain basic universal things about their country for example.

If you live in the UK you should know that the Queen Elizabeth who knighted Sir Francis Drake for saving England from the Spanish Armada was not the same Queen Elizabeth who knighted the Beatles.

Likewise an American should know certain basics about the US like what century the nation was founded.

Not knowing that Christ was born around the beginning of the "Christian Era" is like an American not knowing what year "Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue". Religion has nothing to do with it.

Well..I guess that I am more history minded than the average person. And I suppose that this is an education for me myself about how education itself works in another English speaking country that I would have assumed was more similar to my own country than it may really be.

But still...

Why react that way?

If I were in your shoes I would say "OOhhhh thats what BC stands for". By golly with that new knowledge I can now sally forth and converse with anyone, secular, or religious, and hold my own!"

Why make it negative?