Parade, Parade, Parade: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for March 2025

Given recent news in the world, I’m reminded of the biggest geek fallacy of all: The belief that just because you’re good and knowledgeable about one intellectual area means you are or will inevitably be an expert at another. I think this assumption is often a kind of insufferable macho chauvinism that replaces muscles with brains. Failure to accept with humility that one cannot know it all or be accepted into every area—sometimes because one lacks the necessary culture or context—leads to some of the worst of what we see.

So please understand that it’s okay to be bad at something and that you might not ever be “good” at it. I know it can sting, but it’s also freeing in a way.

Thanks to my supporters on Patreon. In other news, it took basically 10+ years for me to realize I’ve been doing something wrong on the platform the entire time. Never too late to learn!!!

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