This increased around age 18....going off to the Air Force, and at least once a week....I'd encounter a new stupid person. My patience was often tested....like Daniel in the pit of lions.
Somewhere around age 55....my patience rapidly drained with stupid people. I usually require 30 second to note the status of a person, and if the problem can't be rectified in 30 second.....I turn and leave.
The challenge of watching CNN? Well....I often identify this spiral and simply hit mute. It's like they go out of their way to find stupid people....put them in a Wal-Mart-suit or $99 Sears dress....trying to convince me that they only have 'mild-stupidity' or 'stupidity-that-comes-and-goes'.
It'll surprise me on occasion....they start off saying they have a degree from Yale, or some science degree from MIT, or maybe a PhD from Hocus-Pocus-University. Then you come to realize about 3 minutes into their talk.....it's mostly BS, with a fact or two.....selling you something that relates some magic-bean-product, or invisible-jacket.
I do acknowledge.....we need stupid-people....mostly to remind us how corrupted the world is....and that we should pay attention to what is said or suggested. But it just seems like there are a lot of them.
