Once upon a time I was in a live SkilStak session with about ten people crammed into our little space. They were mostly new.
I asked a not so simple question that could be looked up rather easily online. Everyone was sitting in front of their computers and had their own 40” television monitor hooked up to it as well. (Easier for me to keep an eye on them.)
One snarky, rebellious kid with a grin on his face (I tend to attract a lot of them into my mentored community) searched for the answer right in front of us on the screen as if to assert himself as being the dominant smart-ass in the group (of mostly smart-asses).
Of course, a hyper-intelligent suck-up Nellie Oleson (also the type I tend to attract) loudly told on him.
“Mr. Rob, Mr. Rob, he just Googled it. He didn’t really know it.”
I paused, smiled with my own smart-ass grin, and responded.
“Yep, and he did it faster than you. Now he knows it and you don’t.”
The suck-up wilted and eventually stopped coming altogether. People who play by the system of oppression really hate it when people who actually know what’s up expose them. My “evil” rebellious new member had done just that, and won.
Unfortunately, we have to help these smart-ass “evil” people to realize that their actions aren’t evil at all. In fact, they should encouraged to look stuff up, to “cheat” honestly, and take the shortcuts that lead to success without the cost of their soul and ethics. Otherwise, they will think they themselves are evil and start doing truly evil stuff if not caught in time that will drag them down to Hell, one way or another.
Related:
Little House on the Prairie
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