When you 'are not the sharpest tool in the box',
it does not mean that you won't get used
by the hierarchies of the powerful,
and others keen to pull rank.
What it means is that whether you know it
or don't, you need to be doubly wary of who uses you and why.
To be blunt, those who lack sharpness will take you up
to flatter themselves that they are sharper than you,
thus destroying whatever edge you had left.
The consolation is that being misused is survivable.
Being cast as 'a loser' happens to far more people
than many who are taught to see themselves as losers
realise, until they start to look around them.
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