Old Blog: INTP - Powered by Alcohol! September 01, 2007
INTP : Powered by Alcohol
Current mood:
contemplative
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities It seems in every movie that features an INTP-like character, they make them a hopeless alcoholic coupled with genius, throw in a pinch of anti-social tendencies, and bam, they make the quintessential INTP. Let me elucidate with some case studies I have garnered from years of television watching:
Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) : Oh Andy, Andy, Andy... What did the sauce do to you my friend? Apart from landing you in jail of course. Our first look at Andy showing him partaking in the INTPs most cherished past-time : Drinking. Drinking copious amounts as well (5 extra INTP points)!! Andy is not very well liked; his wife cheats on him, the other judge calls him "cold" and unfeeling, and the other inmates reckon he has a "silver spoon up his ass". A INTP caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time. For shame...
John Forbes Nash (A Beautiful Mind) : Not only does this man drink at all hours of the day (as any self respecting INTP strives to do), he also suffers from a mental disorder (just happens to be the mental disorder that INTPs suffer from the most [besides depresssion], schizophrenia. The personality type that can "see what the others can not" also sometimes tends to "see whats not even there"). He drinks with imaginary friends, real friends, by himself, hell even while working on his seminal work in game theory! Maybe alcohol is his muse (mathematicians have muses?), fueling his great intellect, and making the voices in his head "that much more interesting". His idea of social interaction includes "fluid exchange" and people watching. Have a cold one on us John Nash! May the voices in your head never stop!
David Levinson (Independence Day) : Quick! Aliens are attacking the planet! What is the first thing you reach for? If your an INTP its definately the bottle. Of course, as an INTP it also causes massive amounts of inspiration that allow you to concoct the computer virus that saves the world (Is anyone else seeing a trend between alcohol and earth shattering ideas? I am). David Levinson leads your average INTP life, being a computer genius from MIT who works as a cable guy (Neal Stephenson would be proud, lets just name him David Protagonist and give him a pair of samaraui swords. Can we rent him a storage space to live in? Maybe change his job title to 'The Deliverator". But I digress..) and is still attached to his ex wife. His lack of ambition landed him a job that allows him to crack alien codes all day (which is what INTPs need to focus on : hacking aliens). Talking in techno-jargon also wins him all sorts of friends and gets him all the ladies.
Another thing, YOU CANT MAKE A VIRUS FOR A SYSTEM YOU DONT KNOW THE OS OF. Invader Zim acknowledged this problem...
- In the Invader Zim episode "Future Dib," Dib tries to upload a virus onto Zim's computer with the comment, "I hope the Irkens just happen to use the same operating system I have."
Contemplative mode off.