Aug 21, 2017
My dull-witted friend, you see a mob of pampered nincompoops whose sole activity in life is searching for new ways to escape boredom!
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My dull-witted friend, you see a mob of pampered nincompoops whose sole activity in life is searching for new ways to escape boredom!
idiot stupid moron
Repeated blows to the reading ego
But no matter how witty or presumably witless one may be (the polarity always breaks down when the stupids arrive on the scene of reading), the battle of wits is a losing one, able to boast only provisional and recognizably pyrrhic victories. It is not long before it becomes evident that one has necessarily been outwitted (that is, outed as stupid) by the brazen betrayals of linguistic positing. Given the law of language's outwitting nature, it is somewhat surprising that de Man maintains "the dull-witted reader" in its depreciated place, as if one could hope to sharpen one's wits on subjective mastery, which language precisely disallows. One can only be dulled by repeated blows to the reading ego so that the sharpest become the dullest, the cutting edge the most blunt. Language smarts; the subject necessarily dulls.
From what I've been reading: "The Rhetoric of Testing" in Stupidity by Avital Ronell, p. 100
DEMI
LOVATO
DID
NOT
WIN
AN
OSCAR
GET
YOUR
FACTS
RIGHT
SERIOUSLY
DID THEY SAY HER NAME
DID THEY SING HER COVER
DID SHE GET ON THAT STAGE
I AM A DEMI LOVATO FAN
BUT I WILL NOT STAND THIS BULLSHIT
GIVE THE CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE