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luka

Well-known member
what about all these 16 year old Americans we've got on the site now. theyre intellectuals aren't they
 
I didn't say that but I'll take the credit. I agree they're much cleverer but still mostly generalists with no attention spans
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I wonder what contemporary intellectuals a comedian could reference on a primetime show and get a big laugh.

The bloke who wrote Sapiens?
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I wonder what contemporary intellectuals a comedian could reference on a primetime show and get a big laugh.

The bloke who wrote Sapiens?

Comedians don't have the wit to do anything like this, but don't start me on that topic again.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Well what would a non-academic intellectualism look like?

Seemingly, the mainstream, however blurrily we define it, does still have at least a kernel of respect for intellectuals? Is it just buried under a prevailing aversion to pretentiousness? To what extent is that aversion justified, and to what extent is the baby thrown out with the bathwater? That is, to what extent does one, by disregarding academic discourse, disregard a genuine intellectual impetus?
 

luka

Well-known member
people miss the aesthetics of it as much as the content. men talking and smoking cigerettes. no anecdotes. no jokes. maybe a jug of water on a low coffee table
 

luka

Well-known member
Corpse, this reminds me of the time you started a thread for intellectual YouTube videos.

hes got a bee in his bonnet about this 'intellectual' stuff at the moment. thinks he should be thinking more.
 
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