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Prepare yourselves for a rant.
You know, there's a phenomena that rolls around and makes me curious every once in awhile. One that kind of irritates me.
People name drop authors, musicians, directors, etc. Talk about reading an author, and knowing various quotes by this person. I assume, by the attitude they groom and the loftiness they heft, that reading the literature of another makes the person feel better about themselves.
As if they're somehow superior due to reading something written by another individual.
Congratulations on a good choice, I hope it makes you grow as a person and have your OWN ideals and thoughts, your Own revelations and your own accomplishments. But simply reading this individuals work, or admiring their art, or any other facet of accomplishment does not bleed into you. You didn't do it. You're only admiring it, same as anyone else.
Your taste and opinions don't make you superior to anyone else, and chances are, they're not even yours. You met someone who acted lofty and intelligent... used big words and made an impact on you, and thus, you emulate that individual, who probably emulated another.
Granted, again, good books and art can cause a person to grow a great deal. But those who identify themselves by the books they've read and the cultish following they coddle and throw in the face of everyone else simply doesn't raise my opinion of them. Quite the opposite.
You choking down Nietzsche doesn't make you a cerebral person. In most cases, it makes you Otto.
You know, there's a phenomena that rolls around and makes me curious every once in awhile. One that kind of irritates me.
People name drop authors, musicians, directors, etc. Talk about reading an author, and knowing various quotes by this person. I assume, by the attitude they groom and the loftiness they heft, that reading the literature of another makes the person feel better about themselves.
As if they're somehow superior due to reading something written by another individual.
Congratulations on a good choice, I hope it makes you grow as a person and have your OWN ideals and thoughts, your Own revelations and your own accomplishments. But simply reading this individuals work, or admiring their art, or any other facet of accomplishment does not bleed into you. You didn't do it. You're only admiring it, same as anyone else.
Your taste and opinions don't make you superior to anyone else, and chances are, they're not even yours. You met someone who acted lofty and intelligent... used big words and made an impact on you, and thus, you emulate that individual, who probably emulated another.
Granted, again, good books and art can cause a person to grow a great deal. But those who identify themselves by the books they've read and the cultish following they coddle and throw in the face of everyone else simply doesn't raise my opinion of them. Quite the opposite.
You choking down Nietzsche doesn't make you a cerebral person. In most cases, it makes you Otto.