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Does pretensiousness still have any real merit behind it, or has it just become fancy word for "that thing I don't like"?
If not, is there really anything wrong with being pretentious?
I didn't really want to make this topic to mock Rand, I just didn't have any better idea of what to put in here.

>> No.11730449
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more like atlas planet'd

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>>11730446
Brainlets (leftists really) will never understand Rand because they're genetically predisposed not to, they're detrimentally more compassionate and even more so; docile and compliant. They bow down to authoritarianism and collectivism too easily.

>> No.11730495

>>11730492
>leftists
>compassionate
weew

>> No.11730530

>>11730495
yeah perhaps that was the wrong word to use, what I meant was that they're more easily moved by their feelings for better or worse.

>> No.11730546

>>11730446
I believe pretentious is applied to works or authors who believe their words carry much more meaning, or of higher importance than they really do, even though it's very obvious that they don't.

>> No.11730597

>>11730446
A piece is pretentious if it's more self-important than it is meaningful. Think Black Mirror, or the pic in OP. Both claim to have society all figured out, but both are also horribly simplistic and driven mainly by ideology. If either looked at things in more depth, or were less proud of their """groundbreaking""" claims, then they would be less pretentious.

>> No.11731465

>>11730446
There is nothing wrong with being a little bit pretentious

>> No.11731515

>>11730546
I think this is a good definition because it captures that you can be pretentious without being a snob. The writer that comes to mind when I think of pretentious is John Green.

>> No.11732145

>>11730446
Like a lot of words, it's certainly been overused throughout the years. However, it can still be used to describe anything that takes itself too seriously and/or is thought too highly of by its creator and fans.