people who think they know everything

I’m not a condescending, arrogant know-it-all. I’m just thinking about things that you wouldn’t understand.

Patronising, denigrating and conceited people. These are the imbeciles you come across who consider themselves as being the Greek Gods of modern society. In their minds they are of superior quality, deeming they possess profound erudition to everyone else. They parade about being obstructive knowledge beacons who disperse useless information and label themselves ‘Aryan’, believing the fact they possess superior, racial advances that we are not credited with. How long will it be until we are not obliged to hear what ‘the best way to tie our shoes are’ or that ‘the most common invention of the 19th century was the washing machine’? I do not require this useless material.
The trouble is, that with these people, coming out as triumphant is not a possibility. The idea of winning against these haughty individuals is a mere desire, one that many will fantasize about. The big-headed must continually be right and acquiesce will never be shown. Constantly I find myself in worthless confrontation and dispute just because they crave a chance to prove a being incorrect. Why can’t they learn how to keep their mouths shut when they don’t know? For some bizarre reason these people seem to experience deep, intense pleasure when ‘correcting’ another person; even when they’re wrong. How many endorphins must they release each time they correct us to convey such feelings of elation? Why do they feel it a necessity to modify the entirety of the words that come out of our mouths?
People who think they know everything are just an annoyance to those of us who do. Ironically, this is, in the majority of circumstances, true. On countless occasions I have been erroneously corrected by a pathetic know-it-all who believes they possess greater knowledge on one of my specialist subjects. There is nothing more infuriating in life. These disdainful, deriding douchebags not only ‘advocate’ when nobody, including themselves, do not know - they also propound hopeless ideas when we are in the knowing. For example, I have been playing two instruments for around 7 years now and when I was showing a ‘friend’ a piece I was to perform in concert, he opted on ‘lending me some tips’. Now I know I haven’t reached the expert 10,000 hours of practice yet so yes, I am open to criticism. However, this ‘friend’ had less than 3 hours of practice under his belt (the majority of which were probably used searching up tutorials on YouTube) and he didn’t even have a point to make; he just coveted a way to ‘ameliorate’ me. After dedicating weeks of practice to this piece, I was there playing to some idiot who thought he was better than me. In my opinion his actions were ruder than if he were to urinate all over the piano before I was to play.
I thought I had discovered a lone method to diminish the damage these impossible people inflict upon us. I would humour them by exclaiming ‘yes’, ‘well done’ and ‘wow, I never knew that’. However, it was not an ideal, or permanent, solution as it did not put the person down, it simply made them believe they were ingenious masterminds. So, in fact, my solution really augmented the destruction they caused me in the long term. After this, they would attach themselves to me (despite my best efforts) giving me impractical information and guidance until I praised them before exploding euphorically. Then, when the effects of my praise wore off, the useless knowledge began again as they wait for more ‘well dones’ to get high on. It is a continuous cycle. I do not require it.
Hopefully those ‘know-it-alls’ who have read my writing will change their ways. A wise man knows nothing, only fools know everything.