You're not alone in this. I find it a very tired, unoriginal perspective to keep asserting how dumb other people are. At the end of the day, the simplest human brains are still a marvel of science and computational complexity. The fact that it so often gets used for "dumb" things only impresses me more.
Unfortunately, a lot of people boost their worth by degrading others, so to give that credit to those that they look down on would cause them a certain degree of cognitive dissonance.
Only if you assume that I look down on those I'm speaking of. I don't. It's an entirely human thing to do, and something most people will find themselves doing at some point.
Unfortunately, a lot of people boost their worth by degrading others, so to give that credit to those that they look down on would cause them a certain degree of cognitive dissonance.