Who ever told you that you were smart? Or an elite? Or an authority?

Sep 26, 2016 09:57

I've been sitting on this draft, and might as well let rip now. I'm feeling pretty good (meaning physically) for the moment, which I find a better time to rant than when I'm in pain. [as I just want to swear at everybody, which is not the most persuasive of methods ( Read more... )

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wombat_socho September 26 2016, 23:49:58 UTC
As my Canadian friend Colby Cosh wrote the other day, "There's never a shortage of bad ideas", and with people like (notorious robophobe) Little Matty around, we'll have no shortage of people coming up with them. Frankly, I don't regard such people as intellectuals at all, since I was brought up around intellectuals who actually knew stuff; I find R. Emmett Tyrell's epithet "intellectaloids" much more cromulent.

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meep September 27 2016, 11:30:40 UTC
I'll have to remember that term

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