/lit/ - Literature

>>20591423
>Based.
They don't understand what they've set in motion.

>>18150684
>Afterwards I wiped my tail with a hen, with a cock, with a pullet, with a calf's skin, with a hare, with a pigeon, with a cormorant, with an attorney's bag, with a montero, with a coif, with a falconer's lure. But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs. And believe me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feel in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softness of the said down and of the temporate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains. And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus.
>From Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, book 1 chapter 13. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux
High IQ people don't need to prove anything by being "high brow". They either like something or they don't. Once a critical mass of high IQ people like something, however, it is perceived as high brow. The midwits then start consuming it in an attempt to raise their status. Low IQ people know they cannot compete in this status game, so they generally don't try. They just pursue the things they like.
This dynamic applies not just to entertainment, but to life in general. The further you are from the mean, the less your status is in question. People who know their natural place don't need to engage in status signalling.

>>17893493
Oh of course.