Morality? That’s a long standing issue for me. I’ve come to consider myself amoral. If a person or complex of individuals need be taught them or worse coerced to follow them within a particular societal setting, then they (the morals & the peoples) ain’t no good.
Knowledge is power. Those who fear the intellectual elitist know they can’t compete, so they disparage or shame them. I’ll take Knowledge for $100, Alex!
I completely missed the funny in this piece & tend to do that a lot when viewing films. It’s often a later take or two that I’m able to layer in the humor. I recognize this as a deficiency of sorts & ponder on the source and the fix. Maybe meditation is the fix. The source is surely far more convoluted. Here, possibly, if you are the elite, it comes off corny, being the opposite of elite, and there’s the funny. I leave you in peace.
I think the subtext of what I wrote Marcie, is that the word "elitist" has been dragged through some degree of ideological mud. It is not a bad thing to be smart. We should all try to be smarter. This essay is an intervention and a statement, that perhaps intellectual culture in 2025 needs to drop the pretense and practice some more self confidence, in this age of anti-intellectualism and performative genuflection playing substitute for morality.
Morality? That’s a long standing issue for me. I’ve come to consider myself amoral. If a person or complex of individuals need be taught them or worse coerced to follow them within a particular societal setting, then they (the morals & the peoples) ain’t no good.
https://medium.com/eclectic-pragmatism/intellectual-elitist-7e92e2ceee1
That was really funny and just elitist enough to be hella interesting. Keep it up.
Knowledge is power. Those who fear the intellectual elitist know they can’t compete, so they disparage or shame them. I’ll take Knowledge for $100, Alex!
I completely missed the funny in this piece & tend to do that a lot when viewing films. It’s often a later take or two that I’m able to layer in the humor. I recognize this as a deficiency of sorts & ponder on the source and the fix. Maybe meditation is the fix. The source is surely far more convoluted. Here, possibly, if you are the elite, it comes off corny, being the opposite of elite, and there’s the funny. I leave you in peace.
I think the subtext of what I wrote Marcie, is that the word "elitist" has been dragged through some degree of ideological mud. It is not a bad thing to be smart. We should all try to be smarter. This essay is an intervention and a statement, that perhaps intellectual culture in 2025 needs to drop the pretense and practice some more self confidence, in this age of anti-intellectualism and performative genuflection playing substitute for morality.