jaylar
Contempt
One of the most misunderstood emotions, is contempt. It is often taken for politeness, lack of antagonism, compliance, etc.
This is because when you feel contempt; well, you’re the other side of indifferent.
Gina is babbling, you think she’s an idiot, you aren’t listening. You’re sitting there, thinking of what you are going to prepare for dinner.
She thinks you are a good listener.
Bob is expounding some political position. You are ignoring him, he thinks you agree. That is because you don’t say a word.
You don’t say a word because you couldn’t care less what Bob says about anything.
You are sitting over here, there is one massive argument going on over there.
You have contempt for those fools, so say nothing, do nothing. They are simply ‘white noise’. They think you are quiet and polite and understand how ‘important’ that argument is to them.
This is the ‘beauty’ of contempt
Listening other first carefully is also a quality of a person .
Agree with you and it is best sometime to just sit back.
If you don’t care about the views of particular people, why waste breath? There are people you care about or attribute with intelligence, and others.
True especially if they are not going to listen to you anyway.
If you don’t care what X thinks about anything, there’s no reason for a conversation unless you want to expose them to a third party. So, I know this obnoxious guy and told a friend about him, so she came with me and when he started to blather, he proved my assessment.