Pains of Wisdom

I made a small check in the google, if someone has already used that title. Few top hits were related to, wisdom teeth. How appropriate! Really painful and there to stay (unless you take extreme measures) . Similar is the pain of being surrounded by wise. You live in a constant fear of being snapped and corrected in the middle of a doctor - doctor joke, which you thought was funny and deserved to be shared, in the true socialist spirit. Its not funny.
General awareness is not my strong point, it never has been. But now, it seems like a horrendous sin, I committed by not reading all the newspapers. Even the ones published before I was born. "How come you don't know about that? It was all over the Swedish papers" or "How can you not like it? It was a David Lynch movie".
It sometimes seems standards of intellect has been designed to deem me a misfit. Or mother nature is playing foul. I always end up around people who have apparently, figured out everything. And since I have not, and possibly will never, I feel myself to be a wise-man's burden. I just don't like it. Afterall I am too entitled to some human rights. To match wits, (nah! That would be going too far), to gain some respect of my wise friends, I have come up with my own recipe of intellactualism. If someone needs, here it is:

-- always listen to Pink Floyd and The Doors. If you don't understand what they are singing, google is there with the lyrics. Make sure you read about the band members from numerous fan-sites. So the occasion arises, you have a thing or two to add in the ongoing high quality conversation.

-- read Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Well, atleast read about him. Again the google comes handy. Come on! The guy is a noble laureate. Purchase works of John Keats. If you don't know who he is look-up google.

-- watch David Lynch movies. Kiarostami , Makhmalbuf, Kurosawa or Kieslowsky will be even better. Entertainment may be hard to come, but shove upwards in the intellectual circle is guaranteed. Pick finer (?) points, like some particular camera angle, so you can recognize the genius of director/actor. Picking up mistakes will go a long way in establishing your genius.

-- propose solutions to crumbling world economy. As long as you are not policy maker, its not going to kill anyone. Ofcourse you have the right to assert, your right to opinion, even if its borrowed. Its more important to be fashionably wrong than being original and have no opinion.