/lit/ - Literature

At my current age.

18.

>>6329624

Okay kid

I luckily managed to unlearn that sort of sentiment during my mid twenties.

>>6329615

every single person has a lesson or fact that they can teach you, you just need to finally learn that true intellectualism is reliant upon openness

>>6329615
I grew up with a cabal of really smart kids. They were much smarter than me and far more creative, but am pretty proficient at believable intellectual mimicry and information recall.

Our AP english teacher was this gorgeous Creative Writing graduate student at a local state university.

We'd eat lunch in her room every day, eat, drink coffee, and talk politics/philosophy/literature/art/cinema. She'd suggest us literature from her course load and we'd read and talk about it. Cormac McCarthy, Bukowski, HS Thompson, Rushdie, Hitchens, DF Wallace, etc. etc.

I thought we were complete fucking geniuses, and that surely there's on average only one or two individual at our intellectual level at any given school.

I went to college and my suspicions seemed to be confirmed. Dullards, degenerates, prodigal sons, and whores of babylon.

Then I stopped being a little arrogant shitmeister one day and realized that like a solid 40% of the people enrolled at the university had similar little cabals of friends back in highschool with whom they discussed all manner of intellectual/cultural topics.

Then even further down the line, I realized that even the folks that didn't have these cabals had interesting shit to say on certain subjects.

There's still about 20% of humanity that I am convinced that I'm completely superior too in every sense though.

>>6330056
I hope this is a true story

>>6330056

Yeah you can't be last place all the time. Your IQ is likely above 85 and you aren't in prison being welcomed by the BBC committee

>>6330080
It is. Why wouldn't it be?