[MBTI General] pseudo intellectuals

[krunchtime]

Reading some Chompsky gave me a real distaste for "Intellectuals". I see these people everyday.

He basically says professors dress up simply concepts with complex language to try to give it more weight. A "barrier to entry" if you will.

I ran this through google and found The Fate of an Honest Intellectual lol. Its an interesting take - it happens when knowledge is no longer an end in itself, but as a means to power. I think that's a mistake all human communities cannot avoid making, since humans are politically driven animals. In all communities, an established power structure exists, and it is impossible to disturb the order, without having to bear the brunt. It doesn't matter whether you choose to do so by questioning them or acting belligerently. You'll get the same kind of response. This just reminds me that academia can get extremely political urgh.

Somewhere along the way, its a toss-up between deciding to do what's expedient or what you think is right. What is the payoff for denying x number of truths, just to get into a position which allows you to expose that one big lie? The best way to resolve this is to get so theoretical that nobody's interests are hurt whether you are right ot wrong.

 

[Blank]

Haha, I like how threads never end with a truly decisive answer to a question.

Are there pseudo-intellectuals on MBTIc?
Answer: Yes. Thread over.

Plus, it's not like a pseudo-intellectual is unable of contributing anything worthwhile. You'd be surprised to see the contrary to be more of the case.

 

[King sns]

Damn, I wanted to write it. But someone else already did.

So, BUMPED!

 

[Ginkgo]

I'm hardly one now but a year ago... I was exploding manic explosions over esoteric bullshit.

 

[Ginkgo]

...and maybe you're giving me some sub-par psychoanalysis because you misinterpreted this a petty attempt to put someone down rather than discussing it impersonally. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? The world may never know. What I do know is that you are capable of writing a response with actual content, so that is what I expect.

Knight to C-3.




Ah, a good point. Perhaps it is not a matter of intelligence, but knowledge. The offenders, then, are those who merely pretend to have the qualifying education and experience to make positive conclusions on the topic?

It is hard for me to say, seeing as I too do not know much about these topics, but through deductive reasoning even I can see flaws. I wonder if people who were more susceptible to deception might take it as reliable, then the perpetuation of accurate information suffers.

You are a demigod.

 

[King sns]

I'm hardly one now but a year ago... I was exploding manic explosions over esoteric bullshit.

I think my hope for this thread was just to make up a lot of silly "isms" and important sounding names and try to string them together to create new impressive looking sentences. (Because that's what I ended up doing as I drifted off to sleep last night.)

 

[Lark]

I think my hope for this thread was just to make up a lot of silly "isms" and important sounding names and try to string them together to create new impressive looking sentences. (Because that's what I ended up doing as I drifted off to sleep last night.)

There's something nice about the way this sentence is structured or ends.

 

[entropie]

Honest question--am I the only one who sees a lot of them posting on MBTIc?

In my opinion a pseudo-intellectual is someone who attempts to wield arguments beyond the capabilities of their logical facilities. They are the 15-year-old who insists on driving a manual sports car... can't blame them for wanting to try, but I feel it is appropriate to point out that there are negative consequences of misrepresentation.


Discuss... and try to keep it polite, you or I could easily fall into this categorization.

So that means: in Germany are 98% of the population intellectuals cause they all drive manual. That could explain why I feel so alone here, driving an automatic .

I find the op arrogant, hubristic, intolerant, dumb, insolent, young... basically all negative adverbs and adjectives availiable in my dictonary.

The op is the result of someone cankered by ambition to me.

 

[Ginkgo]

I think my hope for this thread was just to make up a lot of silly "isms" and important sounding names and try to string them together to create new impressive looking sentences. (Because that's what I ended up doing as I drifted off to sleep last night.)

You win. Thanks for being you.

 

[King sns]

There's something nice about the way this sentence is structured or ends.

End-Structurism was the mainstay of German life in 1792 after Henry Vanblootenguard single handedly robbed the Egyptians of their treplendous Canterfonden- (CLEARLY visible distinction in Egyptian philosophy today.) It's why I believe so much in the highly superior "bull-suaveism" so clearly lacking in the 21st century. If you don't know what I'm talking about then you clearly haven't understood any of Vanblootenguard's early writings.

 

[Riva]

Maybe you're just projecting your worst qualities onto other people as a way of not having to better yourself.

Check-mate.

^ No actually that's just check. Because it's a maybe.

This is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:yim_rolling_on_the_

INTP Vs INTJ

INTP - X equals Y+Z, which means Z=X-Y, etc
INTJ - You misspelled this.

 

[Sniffles]

End-Structurism was the mainstay of German life in 1792 after Henry Vanblootenguard single handedly robbed the Egyptians of their treplendous Canterfonden- (CLEARLY visible distinction in Egyptian philosophy today.) It's why I believe so much in the highly superior "bull-suaveism" so clearly lacking in the 21st century. If you don't know what I'm talking about then you clearly haven't understood any of Vanblootenguard's early writings.

I think you're talking about Hegel.

 

[Rasofy]

This is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:yim_rolling_on_the_

lol!

INTP Vs INTJ

INTP - X equals Y+Z, which means Z=X-Y, etc
INTJ - You misspelled this.

Like we don't do the same with them. Even though changing their mind is quite a big challenge.

 

[Lark]

End-Structurism was the mainstay of German life in 1792 after Henry Vanblootenguard single handedly robbed the Egyptians of their treplendous Canterfonden- (CLEARLY visible distinction in Egyptian philosophy today.) It's why I believe so much in the highly superior "bull-suaveism" so clearly lacking in the 21st century. If you don't know what I'm talking about then you clearly haven't understood any of Vanblootenguard's early writings.

This reads like Victorism.

 

[rav3n]

The term intellectual is a bizarre one, with all its connotations. Forget the silly terms and just enjoy knowledge or not.

 

[prplchknz]

I don't care if there are to be honest. I'm not even an intellectual so how can i be a fake one?

 

[King sns]

The term intellectual is a bizarre one, with all its connotations. Forget the silly terms and just enjoy knowledge or not.

Yeah, a lot said with a few words here. I don't understand it as a lifestyle. It sounds no different than keeping up with the Joneses, except knowledge wise.

 

[violet_crown]

Reading some Chompsky gave me a real distaste for "Intellectuals". I see these people everyday.

He basically says professors dress up simply concepts with complex language to try to give it more weight. A "barrier to entry" if you will.

Yes. This is my reason for hating philosophy, the majority of philosophers, and philosophy majors most of all. They should all die in a fire.

 

[King sns]

Yes. This is my reason for hating philosophy, the majority of philosophers, and philosophy majors most of all. They should all die in a fire.

Don't kill philosophy! It's an easy GPA boost. They should just have a whole section in colleges called "easy GPA boost" to tell you that though you won't apply it on the job, it does have some use getting through college. People who major in philosophy just like high GPA's. Can't fault them for that.

 

[rav3n]

Yeah, a lot said with a few words here. I don't understand it as a lifestyle. It sounds no different than keeping up with the Joneses, except knowledge wise.

I suppose you can spin this off to generalised terms of hoarding, whether material objects or intangibles. The human condition is insecurity which is fear manifested. Everyone hoards to some degree, in order to control the uncontrollable in the form of uncontrollable offset or direct control which includes competitive advantage, a clawing upwards for the right to survive.