Being on Reddit for more than a few years is like witnessing a cringe-worthy coming of age story repeat itself over and over.
First, you discover atheism. You spend some time watching Christopher Hitchens youtube videos and looking at poorly made Christian slam photos and become aggressively abrasive to anyone who is religious. You think your new found atheism naturally puts you at a moral superiority to anyone who holds any religious or spiritual beliefs. You're outraged at how more people don't talk about it. Christian people are just the worst thing in the world.
Then you head off to college where you become even more of a self righteous prick. In your still forming brain you think a few undergraduate courses qualify you to answer askscience questions. Maybe political or economic ones too. You fight tooth and nail with some dude named "COCKMASTERBALLS" about Keynesian economics, just clamoring to show off your newly found knowledge. In the end, no one really learns much because both of you know overly simplified abstracts of the concept. That's fine because you're not looking to actually learn, just flex your brain balls to get people to tell you how smart you are. Fedora tip to you m'redditor.
At this point in time, everything is black and white. "If you do X, your'e an asshole." "People who do Y deserve Z." But you also think people should be open minded like you. I mean, for Christ's sake, why can't people just think EXACTLY like you do? I mean, you're so much smarter than everyone. Why can't people see that the POLITICAL SYSTEM IS RIGGED. Trickle down economics is bullshit. Money corrupts politics. The democratic party is obviously less full of shit than the Republican party. They're honest, right? There is never any controversy in the Democratic party, and if there is rest assured you have several ThinkProgress or MotherJones articles that explain why the Koch brothers are actually behind it.
Soon, after a few tirades about how it's unfair that girls don't like nice guys like you (definitely has nothing to do with the fact that you don't develop social skills because you never leave your dorm/apartment). Whatever, just remind yourself that you're intellectually superior, that's why you can't communicate with women.
By now maybe you've chosen a major. Your political/economic/science debates are really ramping up now. Shit, you barely had time to gather with 2-3 of your socially awkward friends and play Cards Against Humanity while listening to Queen (Bho Rap=best song ever).
Maybe you're going to go on a side excursion where you're trying your hand at trying to convince married people and parents that their life experience doesn't necessarily make their opinions more valid. You've got a lot going for you. You're the smartest guy ever (duh), but experience isn't something you get at a young age, so you better put that Logic 101 class to use (STRAWMAN!!!) to tell older people why their opinions are bullshit.
If you're in Engineering (and you probably are), you might find yourself becoming slightly smug. Maybe it's because the world literally could not function without Engineers and lets be real, when it gets down to it, Engineers could do the jobs of anyone on the planet. Plebs.
So you graduate, now you're looking for a job. Perhaps you had a serious breakup and spent a year trying weird shit that you normally wouldn't do because of the emotional whiplash. Eventually you realized true love is actually BS.
For the first time in a long time you might be humbled at your job prospects. You've followed the formula, but no one told you you had to form connections and have social skills to land a job out of college. You're so smart you didn't even see that coming. All of sudden you realize, holy shit, the job market is unfair. People get things they don't deserve. Your whole logic driven worldly view comes crashing down. How could this be?
But you're awesome, and eventually you get a job. Now you start bitching and moaning about the monotony of a 9-5. On the bright side your askreddit/political/economic/science debates are going pretty well, because now you can claim to "work in the field." Which you know is bullshit because you've been there for like 6 years, but it's technically true.
To your credit, you're starting to hit your mid-20's, so you're becoming self aware. You convince yourself that "EVERYONE IS A CHILD AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN LIFE." Which makes you feel better for a while. That vengeant, political you is starting to become muted because, for the first time, you see that in a lot of areas there are shades of gray.