#pseudo-intellectuals

[shaffyreads]

There was a trend where pseudo-intellectual dweebs were like, "Thanos was right! We're struggling to survive because the earth is overpopulated," and now, years later, these same dweebs are suddenly panicked about human extinction because of declining birthrates lol.

[hellyeahheroes]

We need to talk about pseudo-intellectuals by Psychology with Dr. Ana

[art-of-mathematics]

The only thing worse than ignorance is the illusion of knowledge, as it takes away the soil for the seeds of real understanding, the seeds that can grow and blossom. No illusionary seed will be able to offer perpetuation of creation as the illusion of knowledge is the hangman of originality and creativity.

In times like these, real education is rebellion against the genocide of one's own species.

Man has alienated himself from his very own self, by taking away the balance of the most important aspects of his own species: He has beaten curiosity out off his soul, until the other weight in the scale took over; strive for comfort. By losing curisoty he not only loses curiosity in his own environment, but also in his fellow humans; Man turns into a egomaniac species who does not care if people get harmed or even killed by own actions. But he does it to escape his very own hell, the perverted reality he has created entirely by himself. He perpetuates and amplifies his suffering, as he is not able or willing to adress the issue and that he himself is responsible for accounting to the solution, or the problem. Therefore they created a questionable entity to "save them", when in reality only they themselves can save them from their own selfmade doom.

Man has hunted for illusions, until they started to haunt him.

But, better start to look the monster in the eyes, before we all vanish into total annihilation. Only we ourseleves are resonsible. There is no one to save us, and even if there would be one, they won't solve the problems we caused entirely by ourselves. We should learn this lesson in responsibility! It is our turn to learn and grow!

[hydrangeasandroses]

Some of the dumbest people I’ve spoken to had this “everyone is stupid except me” mindset.

They’re always the most insecure, self centered assholes you’ll ever meet. They repeat memes from Reddit and 4Chan like a middle schooler who discovered both sites for the first time. They’ve deluded themselves into believing that if they call everyone who disagrees with them an “NPC”, that somehow they’ll be seen as the misunderstood intellectual they think they are.

In reality, they are praying to whatever higher being that they’re not found out. They hope that by repeating “Idocracy is a documentary” that they’ll be seen as enlightened intellectuals.

As some guy once said:

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

I’d add in that true wisdom is having enough humility to know that you can always learn something new.

Thanks for tuning in to my TED Talk.

[dagwolf]

Jordan Peterson Tries to Speak About Purpose, Fails

The problem with a hierarchy is it produces inequality. The problem with inequality is it produces resentment. Right, but you can’t get rid of the damn hierarchy just because they produce inequality and resentment, because then you don’t have anywhere to go. So that’s not an answer.

Okay, so let’s say you’re trying to deal with the fact that you have to put up with a hierarchy if you’re going to have any values. Well, how do you escape from the resentment trap? And the answer is you do an intelligent multidimensional analysis of your life.

It’s like, by the time you’re 30, I would say, you’re a pretty singular person. You’re unique and particular and your life has multiple dimensions. And you’re more or less successful—or not—along many of those dimensions.

But it’s a completely ridiculous game to pick someone else arbitrarily, who’s doing much better than you on one of those dimensions, to assume that you’re a failure because of that, or that the world is unfair because of that, without knowing in full detail all of the rest of the elements of their lives. I mean, look, we’re absolutely awash in stories of unhappy celebrities mired in interminable divorces or in affairs or in addictions. And that’s par for the course.

It’s not helpful. It’s helpful to have a goal. It’s necessary to have a hierarchy. It’s not particularly useful to compare yourself to other people. But it is useful to compare yourself to yourself. That’s the right baseline, right? That takes everything else into account. 

Unexamined assumptions in Jordan’s argument (just in the section I’ve quoted): (1) Without hierarchy, we’d have nowhere to go; (2) Having nowhere to go is not an answer; (3) Without hierarchy, we’d have no values; (4) Responding to injustice and inequality through struggle against hierarchy is resentment; (5) Expressing resentment is a trap; (6) By the time you’re 30, you’re a singular person; (7) We become unique and particular when we embrace hierarchy, injustice, and inequality; (8) Comparing our social situations to others’ situations is arbitrary; (9) Struggling against hierarchy is a form of unhappiness comparable to celebrities mired in divorces or affairs or addictions and that is par for the course; (10) Without hierarchy, one cannot have goals; (11) Comparing ourselves to others is unhelpful; (12) Comparing “yourself to yourself” is an activity that takes “everything else” into account.

Peterson’s pseudo-intellectual spiel is as convoluted as these self-help men get. I don’t really understand how he’s become to be so well regarded. He makes zero sense when he talks. I don’t think he’s capable of having written his own books. I imagine with some close analysis, we’d be discover his written work is mostly paraphrased bits from other shit he’s read.

[thewandererlova]

At times, learning on all sorts of concerns that are happening in this world leads to overthinking. I am currently in this situation. And unfortunately, I consider it as my real weakness.  

Seeking for knowledge is regarded as a virtuous attribute of a person. Yet, the fact it pressures us to become intellectuals (or even pseudo-intellectuals) can even leave us being too curious about the world. Some become wiser, but at the same time, more complicated and sad.

I sometimes find myself not feeling satisfied enough after understanding much information about one issue after another. It’s like I am trying to know too well how I should respond to these concerns in the wisest manner, and still not sure if my words are impactful or not.

In that case, I would like to allow myself to dumb down ‘just a little’, appreciate the present moment, and live on. 

[themusingstranger]

Tumblr Blogger (while embracing and spreading false and rubbish posts): Let me believe and pass around this piece of information. To show how skeptical I am. To show how smart I am. To show that I won’t be fooled by the media and the government.

[themusingstranger]

I too enjoyed the Beyonce video as much as the next man, but I can’t help but think that half of all the symbolism and argument ascribed to it by sociology professors and other cultural critics across the republic never even crossed the artist’s mind.