1. Realise, that you are judging people on what is important to you, and not them.
"No reflection, no relevant context, no mirror provided by an intimate knowledge of history or literature ... just nothing." These are things important to you, and it is perfectly fine to make this choice on who to associate with. Realise it is a choice, and this does not mean other values are less "important"
2. Realise, that it is impossible for each person to have complete knowledge. We are limited in what we can know and do. Therefore knowledge is distributed. If knowledge is distributed, every single person could have some gift to provide the world (and you) based on their own unique circumstance and history.
The question then becomes: are you paying attention? and is it relevant?
"The use of knowledge in society" written in 1945, makes a compelling case for the distribution of knowledge in society:
"No reflection, no relevant context, no mirror provided by an intimate knowledge of history or literature ... just nothing." These are things important to you, and it is perfectly fine to make this choice on who to associate with. Realise it is a choice, and this does not mean other values are less "important"
2. Realise, that it is impossible for each person to have complete knowledge. We are limited in what we can know and do. Therefore knowledge is distributed. If knowledge is distributed, every single person could have some gift to provide the world (and you) based on their own unique circumstance and history.
The question then becomes: are you paying attention? and is it relevant?
"The use of knowledge in society" written in 1945, makes a compelling case for the distribution of knowledge in society:
https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html