Nerd Church - Simply the Best? It's More Complicated Than That

One of the many things that makes me tired in this beautiful trash-fire of a world is that some people think that everything - everything - has to be a superlative.

What's a superlative? Well there's a couple of meanings to the word, but I'm talking about this one:

'In grammar, the superlative form of an adjective or adverb is the form that indicates that something has more of a quality than anything else in a group. For example, ' biggest' is the superlative form of 'big'.'

- COBUILD Collins English Dictionary Online 

And the world? The world isn't actually comprised solely of superlatives and extremes.

Good Lord, she's gonna talk about nuance on the Internet! Someone stop her!

(Note: don't stop me. 😜😎) 

Not everything in life has to be the bestest, the mostest, the worstest, the leastest.

You can just enjoy things for what they are - weird, I know.

Most things are complex - a mixture of factors that are not easily defined or quantified.

For example - a dog.

Yes, it's a dog. But that doesn't mean it'll like to chase its tail - a lot of dogs do, but not all dogs do. 

That doesn't mean it's any better or worse than any other dog. It has its own little doggy personality and quirks.

The only time it would be somehow deficient as a dog on account of not wanting to chase its tail is if, for whatever weird reason, you really needed it to chase its tail.

You get me?

(Don't worry if you don't understand - that was, admittedly, quite a random analogy 😅)

A lot of people like the simplicity of a yes/no, right/wrong world.

Things are either amazing or terrible. They are the best or the worst. And you can probably see the appeal of that kind of thinking.

...But they're not.

The world is not comprised purely of dichotomies (opposites; an either/or scenario.) The world is messy. Because people are messy.

Yes, I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: people are messy.

And people are messy because people are people. Complex li'l so-and-so's. #SorryNotSorry

So it really doesn't make much sense to reduce those beautiful, messy, terrible, people to 'best' or 'worst,' or to 'good' or 'bad,' even.

People are people.

And because our world is largely a result of humanity's creations, destructions, and general interactions, it too is messy.

In the long run it's gonna be easier if we stop trying to reconcile all the different and conflicting absolutes and just let things... exist.

So that TV show? That film? That book? That method of spinning straw into gold*?

It doesn't have to be the best. It doesn't have to be the worst. It is what it is.

And that's alright by me.

*If you know how to spin straw into gold, maybe toss some cash my way in the form of a cup of coffee? Lol 😅😎😘

What do you think?

Is this the best idea, or the worst? 😉😅

Talk to me! 😊💬

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