Trying Is Different From Succeeding, So Stop!

When did so many people that I know begin to think that they are the smart ones? It seems that I catch someone trying to be clever or deceptive on an almost daily basis. Playing both sides of the fence effectively is an artform, remember? The oblivious nature of the post seventies generation has crept into the psyche of of our own lumpen majority and it's causing me to yearn for isolation now more than ever before. If not true isolation, then the isolation of being the new person in a big city that I've never lived in before.