/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19623908]

Is there a point for intellectual pursuit anymore?

[Anonymous No.19623914]

>>19623908
>smartest
>frog posting
Pick one. If anything, said boomers will buy drones and eradicate the frogposting menace.

[Anonymous No.19623915]

>>19623908
Wait am I one of the smartest men?

[Anonymous No.19623918]

>>19623908
1. stop posting twitter caps here
2. this guy is a midwit
3. i look better than him

[Anonymous No.19623922]

>>19623908
Academics are still around.

[Anonymous No.19623928]

>>19623908
I dont know about Kantian discourse but I have never seen a bigger waste of time than "theory". Good fucking lord

[Anonymous No.19623939]

>>19623922
They only say what the establishment wants them to say. Look at the 1619 project.

[Anonymous No.19623943]

>>19623928
What is "theory" for you.

[Anonymous No.19623945]

>he hasn't read Beautiful Fighting Girl
Platonism lives yet, stupid twitter user

[Anonymous No.19623948]

>>19623939
As your country changes demographically, its history gets revised. Why wouldn't this be the case? If you are upset, do something about it.

[Anonymous No.19623953]

>>19623943
If you haven't seen people use the word theory in that way I envy you. I dont care to disentangle what their defintion is of it myself; there probably isnt a real defintion at all. It's stuff like 20th century marxism and philosophers like Deleuze.

[Anonymous No.19623964]

>>19623953
Deleuze is not "theory" in the sense that twitter users mean it. They usually mean some sort of orthodox marxist explanation for inequality.

[Anonymous No.19623974]

>>19623908
When you are surrounded by mouth breathers best to lay low. We are in the idiocracy timeline now

[Anonymous No.19623980]

>>19623908
As it should be.

[Anonymous No.19623983]

>>19623964
I've seen them use theory to refer to Deleuze but again I dont really give a shit what it is because none if it means anything or does anything

[Anonymous No.19623984]

>>19623922
Everything is corrupt, everything is a fraud. Even you didnt figure this out as a teen it means you are probably kinda retarded

[Anonymous No.19623994]

>>19623908
Hate to break it to you, but the men falling for 100 cheesy LARPs in five years and fifty times as many dud happenings aren't the smartest men alive. They're white niggers, the niggers of the white race.

[Anonymous No.19624000]

>>19623908
Hate to break it to you, but the men falling for a hundred cheesy LARPs in five years and fifty times as many dud happenings aren't the smartest men alive. They're white niggers, the niggers of the white race.

[Anonymous No.19624006]

>>19623948
>If you are upset, do something about it.
Nice try, Glowie.

[Anonymous No.19624014]

>>19624000
>the men falling for a hundred cheesy LARPs in five years and fifty times as many dud happenings aren't the smartest men alive.
At least they are smart enough to understand that our society is extremely flawed. Most people simply sit back like frogs in boiling water as things get progressively worse every year.

[Anonymous No.19624018]

>>19623922
>academics
Kek, are you implying that contemporary academics are some morally upstanding intellectuals? 50% of them are w*men nowadays, and the other half are Reddit types - cowardly narcissists unable to function outside the adult daycare system... And obviously, 100% of them have no values of their own and just parrot any narrative they're ordered to.

[Anonymous No.19624109]

>>19624018
As if you had any clue about academics. It has degraded because it's now fully controlled by capitalism and not because anything about moral integrity.

[Anonymous No.19624111]

>>19623915
Check out the Einstein over here, sheeesh. In English, Doc.

[Anonymous No.19624115]

>>19623922
>academics
>intelligent
Reading secondary and tertiary literature all day does not constitute intelligence.

[Anonymous No.19624145]

>>19623908
Based retard. Academia is indeed a rotten husk without a purpose but I'm not sure if trannies with youtube channels will deliver us into the golden age of human thought

[Anonymous No.19624393]

>>19624014
>AT LEAST WE KNOW THING BAD
Such wisdom!

[Anonymous No.19624408]

>>19623908
if you really want to know truth, the absolut truth, then yes.

[Anonymous No.19624429]

I'm a best-selling author, and I'm here to tell each and every one of you that you're irredeemably retarded. Jesus Fucking Christ, Merry Christmas.

[Anonymous No.19624442]

>>19624429
Show us your book, or flee from here like the coward you are cum drinker

[Anonymous No.19624467]

>>19623953
I agree with (You) and think (You) are correct and are probably both handsome and have high testosterone.

[Anonymous No.19624479]

>>19624393
Unironically yes, the desire to discern good from evil is indicative of wisdom, or at least indicative of an attempt at wisdom.

[Anonymous No.19624483]

The way I see it, the only events taking place in this world are in the realm of business. Gold over conquest has been the policy of this civilization for 70+ years.

[Anonymous No.19624489]

>>19624483
Thanks to that policy we live in the most peaceful times in history and are richer than medieval kings.

[Anonymous No.19624503]

>>19624489
richer than medieval kings, but living in an unaesthetic hellscape wage-slaving for the corporatocracy

[Anonymous No.19624509]

>>19624503
yes you'd be much better corvee slaving for the aristocracy such a hot take

[Anonymous No.19624563]

>>19623974
>people are le DUMB
>t. some fucking nobody
Why do midwits enjoy such quotes so much?

[Anonymous No.19624572]

>>19623908
>posting a twitter screen cap
Certainly intellectual pursuit is dead for you.

[Anonymous No.19624578]

>>19624489
All you did was express excitement regarding what I just said, which was unnecessary. Whether it excites you does not matter.

[Anonymous No.19624588]

>>19624578
My post subtly expresses a value judgement.
Prioritizing gold over conquest is a good thing!

[Anonymous No.19624599]

Did someone say 'massive anime jugs'?
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.

[Anonymous No.19624602]

>>19623908
>Is there a point for intellectual pursuit anymore?
In science, technology, and mathematics, yes. In the humanities, not really. The humanities will have to move past Marxism before they can be considered a worthy field again.

[Anonymous No.19624607]

Yes, the point should be personal enlightenment. Appealing to academia is a mistake.

[Anonymous No.19624628]

>>19624479
>things I like are good
>things that I don't like are bad
I am the wisest man who ever lived

[Anonymous No.19624635]

>>19624479
Then congratulations, no need to worry, everyone's already wise.

[Anonymous No.19624641]

>>19623908
Most frog posters are brain-dead and just repeat one or two memes with a shit question. Also, they're not as unique as they think. On various Discord channels, you always see fucking frogs, even on liberal channels.
I think Pepe symbolizes the chaos and sickness of modern Western society rather being "based".

[Anonymous No.19624794]

>>19623984
I can tell how much you need this to be true.
And for there to be a return to when all academia was without corruption or insincerity.
Tell me, what exact year was that again?

[Anonymous No.19624854]

>>19624429
>best-selling author

How's it feel writing airport fiction?

[Anonymous No.19624890]

>>19624429
>I'm here to tell each and every one of you that you're irredeemably retarded
gay

[Anonymous No.19624899]

>>19624602
You're just sexist and don't realize it. In domains without women it's worth it? Golly gee I wonder shy

[Anonymous No.19624900]

>>19623922
>>19623939
>>19623984
>>19624018
>>19624115
St. John's College was still pretty based up until the last couple years. The social culture was kind of dying when I was there, but still had the remnants of an intelligent and antiestablishment vibe. I left when the administration decided to shut down and go online for the maskenning. Most of the staff were very against it since it was clearly the last nail in the coffin for them selling out to modern ways, but somehow the administrative fags had more power than the true leaders and got their Jewish way. They probably had no idea what they were doing, but in my mind they were defeating one of the last frontiers of true academia and transforming into a shithole like everything else.
It's my dream to find the right community to take the paradigm of St. John's and rebuild it with some bolsters against the poison of modernity. I've been offline for a while but I will make some posts soon about what I've been working on, if any of you are interested.

[Anonymous No.19624908]

>>19624899
Pure projection. There are plenty of women in the sciences.

>>19624900
What was so good about St. John's College?

[Anonymous No.19625021]

>>19623915
Not yet, we need anime jugs as well.

[Anonymous No.19625096]

>>19623908
this is just some loser's dumb twitter fight, he's talking about kantbot and no one else

he's also a dumbass, anyone in that sphere worth listening to went to college and reads real books. BAP is some kind of professor iirc.

[Anonymous No.19625127]

>>19623974
that quote is completely fucking wrong
Intelligence is the most valued (and overvalued) trait a person can have in America. It’s incredible we are not at China levels of lying and backstabbing yet. I bet he was just thinking “oh hon hon hon le 13% americans do not know where Sudan is on a map so zey are all retarded”

[Anonymous No.19625146]

>>19624908
Uh huh

[Anonymous No.19625190]

>>19624908
The program began with a beautiful vision of reviving the Socratic method and other pedagogies of the past as a way to teach critical thinking and preserve the humanities/Western tradition.
The program works its way through history chronologically, classes are primarily dialectic discussions on "Great Books", and there are "tutors" instead of professors, since it is their job to lightly guide discussions, rather than "profess" knowledge. It's essentially ancient Athens larping academy. I believe it's one of the least pozzed institutions.
There is a special atmosphere in the culture there that is very meaningful. I think this commencement speech by one of the program's founders captures the vibe of it pretty well:

Imago Mundi, on p.204
https://archive.org/stream/embersoftheworld010559mbp/embersoftheworld010559mbp_djvu.txt

[Anonymous No.19625322]

>>19624429
you sound like a 24 yr old hot girl.

[Anonymous No.19625347]

>>19625127
Nice professionalisation of the intellect you've got there.

[Anonymous No.19625368]

>>19623908
Not really, there is only the coom now. Sadly I am bad at cooming.

[Anonymous No.19625389]

let him out!

[Anonymous No.19625440]

>>19624900
>It's my dream to find the right community to take the paradigm of St. John's and rebuild it with some bolsters against the poison of modernity.
Make a men's only college - problem solved.

[Anonymous No.19625448]

>>19624900
>>19625190
I think the culture of SJC got weaker with the passing or absence of the faculty members who used to be associated with the old dean Jacob Klein, the guy who really gave it its purpose from the 50s on. Berns is dead, Umphrey, Sachs, and White (if he's not dead) seem to be around but not in any teaching capacity, the Higueras and Tuck are retired I think, and the newer younger batches of tutors either hate or don't respect Klein and Strauss and are as prone to subscribing to the views of their students. Not looking forward to the shitshow once Brann dies. The trans hivemind in the back campus dorms isn't going away.

[Anonymous No.19625478]

>>19625448
Serious question - how do you not blame women? Universities have existed for 400+ years throughout the West and they all start to fall apart in the last 50 years. Like, it's not their corporatization because making colleges bigger should, IN THEORY, make them cheaper.

[Anonymous No.19625488]

>>19624111
Checked

[Anonymous No.19625498]

>>19625478
>making colleges bigger should, IN THEORY, make them cheaper.
That's the problem, though. Academia went from holding an elite position in society to an industrial one where the focus is pumping out office drones. At this point, college is secondary education.

[Anonymous No.19625523]

>>19625478
Depends on the vision of college or university you're looking at, right? The move at the turn of the 19th century towards offering students electives of every kind to major and minor in seems like the more decisive problem in the first place, since from that point students increasingly become customers who can take their money elsewhere for the services they want. Women's studies (and black studies and queerness studies etc.) all follow from the earlier change, so they seem to be symptoms rather than causes.

There could be something in the nature of women, I guess, but that feels like it's letting shitheads off easy, as though Eva Brann, Ronna Burger, Catherine Zuckert, and others aren't great examples of how to think and be scholarly for both men and women. Meanwhile, the cancer isn't just limited to women, since clearly there's a bunch of shitty men supporting it.

[Anonymous No.19625579]

>psyop participant twitter guys are actually the smart ones for doing the psyops as instructed and not really thinking about it and YOU'RE the idiot for calling them dumb
okay if that's what you think

[Anonymous No.19625593]

>>19625498
Bigger means cheaper for everything, so why not universities? It stares you in the face and you ignore it.
>>19625523
>The move at the turn of the 19th century towards offering students electives of every kind to major and minor in seems like the more decisive problem in the first place, since from that point students increasingly become customers who can take their money elsewhere for the services they want.
How many people choose colleges for their unique major?
>Women's studies (and black studies and queerness studies etc.) all follow from the earlier change, so they seem to be symptoms rather than causes.
Why didn't African American studies exist from WEB DuBois?
>There could be something in the nature of women, I guess, but that feels like it's letting shitheads off easy,
Where is the origin of the intersectionalists? Men?
>Eva Brann, Ronna Burger, Catherine Zuckert, and others aren't great examples of how to think and be scholarly for both men and women.
Yeah not really the argument I'm making. As soon as a hierarchy has 70%+ women it destroys itself.
>Meanwhile, the cancer isn't just limited to women, since clearly there's a bunch of shitty men supporting it.
Supporting the "it" from men? Come on man.

[Anonymous No.19625616]

>>19623974
is*

[Anonymous No.19625630]

>>19625593
Btw to be clear - if men do not wake up to the very basic realization that the sexes have physically changed but not pyschologically Western civilization is forfeit.

[Anonymous No.19625636]

People don't need your philosophy stuff .They need food, shelter, transportation, health insurance,internet connection, cellphone service ,and etc. They want to get laid or get ahead so they can take laid more often. In short ,they need to get money not some ideas.

[Anonymous No.19625645]

>>19623908
If you're not intrinsically motivated by the pursuit of truth and wisdom for its own sake regardless of cultural circumstances then you're NGMI and miss the point.

Also if you think that twitter post has something insightful to say you're beyond saving.

[Anonymous No.19625661]

>>19625645
Good post

[Anonymous No.19625719]

>>19625593
>How many people choose colleges for their unique major?
I don't know; how many people choose colleges out of branding first and then go in expecting the freedom to choose whatever subject they want? I'd expect "a lot."

>Why didn't African American studies exist from WEB DuBois?
The rise of black studies coincides with expansion of the college market to middle class blacks in light of the civil rights movement. That comes with the permission of the white male faculties.

>Where is the origin of the intersectionalists? Men?
Obviously it stems from gay women as a mode of thought, but it entered the academic realm through, again, white male permission.

>Yeah not really the argument I'm making. As soon as a hierarchy has 70%+ women it destroys itself.
And the cause is...? Again, women and minorities in general have the places they do now because men have either given them permission or saw something to benefit from giving it away, and not merely because they're just nice, empathetic guys. The men who let this all happen were already pussies who didn't need women and minorities to make them that way. It's easier especially for narcissistic men in a democracy that puts more value in how you present yourself than in ever having to live up to anything.

>Supporting the "it" from men? Come on man.
Lol, tilt at windmills at your own peril, but you're mistaking symptoms for causes.

[Anonymous No.19625741]

>>19623943
>Hegel and Lacan are really saying the same thing

[Anonymous No.19625748]

>>19623908
>be Kant
>have daily habit of reading and writing philosophy
>uhm... the thing itself guys
ngmi

[Anonymous No.19625750]

>>19624794
XVI century

[Anonymous No.19625769]

>>19623953
It's a catchall term for continental philosophy, literary criticism, and sociology, and cultural studies. It's m,ore or less the foundation for the worldview of today's left.

[Anonymous No.19625790]

>>19625769
Like abullet to the head. No one careing who watches. Like the state of the sausages you steal from the butcher's. Regards Geoff scoff

[Anonymous No.19625848]

>>19625719
>I don't know; how many people choose colleges out of branding first and then go in expecting the freedom to choose whatever subject they want?
Majors were just poor synonyms got jobs outside the harder ones.
>permission of white male faculties
Not permission - Civil Rights Bill made it illegal to discriminate at rhe federal level.
I notice that you have a very academic approach to broad societal problems - i.e. big issues have complex causes. This is just simply a farce - the majority of our thought processes in the political are simply decided by the type of government we have (aristocracy vs. democracy), beyond that it's optics. I think we agree on the key moment of men permitting women into capitalism and higher ed - but the thing that we're disagreeing on is whether or not women's participation in traditionally patriarchal domains is corrosive. If you think it's not - name one all female institution which is totally led by women that's over 100 years old.

[Anonymous No.19625906]

>>19625848
>Not permission - Civil Rights Bill made it illegal to discriminate at rhe federal level.
The Civil Rights Bill didn't necessitate introducing women's studies and race studies. A lowering of standards? Sure, granted, but the most worthless humanities programs were let in by the permission of the men in charge. Whether it was because they were correcting an injustice, or cowards in the face of spoiled asshole students, or because they figured it was a good financial decision, it happened *because they allowed it*.

I'm not saying anything highfalutin', but the "x studies" programs were preceded by men letting it happen, and that was preceded by the transformation of the old college and university model (back when the Ivies all basically had the same unified programs) in favor of one that that was designed to appeal to broader and broader classes of people willing to spend the money to give their kids an "elite" education. Again, symptoms, not causes. Otherwise, show me the women who totally marched in at every college and university campus forcing them to teach women's studies.

[Anonymous No.19625914]

>>19623908
Lift weights, travel, drive fast cars, have sex with beautiful women, then become a hobo and write

[Anonymous No.19625943]

>>19624899
>hears the word science and unstantly equates it with tfw no women
>concludes the humanities just aren't something women could just move out of for stem, basically outing that they think women are too retarded for science
>thinks they're stopping the evil sexists
A genuinely great character for a comedy short story, lmk when you've finished it

[Anonymous No.19626306]

>>19625943
>>19625906
You're right - the world has changed in the last 50 years due to a mixture of technological advancements and value shifts which demographics provide secondary explainations fot symptoms.

Also, Merry Christmas!!!

[Anonymous No.19626856]

>>19625906
>>19625848
>>19625719
>>19625593
I think it's obvious that the decay comes from women and minorities. It's not exactly the fault of men that this happened, though it's easy to construe it this way, that "white male permission" opened all the doors to the dumbing down of institutions. I'd reframe it this way: decadence got the upper hand of society through the means of its own self-driving insidiousness, however it was the responsibility of white men to protect the tradition from destruction, therefore we must take the state of things on our own conscience as if it were our doing, even though it was truly caused by an energy that was beyond our control and too complex to predict. We must virtuously take responsibility for that which we were not responsible for. That will return the power to our own minds and actions and give us opportunity to restore mankind as a battle for our own honor, as opposed to suffering hopelessly for some complex reason.

>>19625448
As much as I do think Klein and Strauss carried so much of the spirit of SJC on their backs, I think the program was designed to carry itself through the generations on its own, for the torch to be continually passed and driven in an upward spiral by each class. But what was needed for that to flow back in the day is nothing compared to what it takes to resist modernity today. Just as it is the responsibility of white men to save education in the West, it is the responsibility of Johnnies to stoke the flames of the great books program on their own, even though it isn't their fault that the flames are dying, and even though this burden is far greater than any who came before them. This is it. We are on our own. It is up to us to make something of the lot we've been given, and it is on our honor as men to succeed in the mission set before us.

[Anonymous No.19626887]

>>19626856
>restore mankind as a battle for our own honor, as opposed to suffering hopelessly for some complex reason
That sounds exactly like suffering hopelessly for some complex reason. You are trying to marry your ressentiment to some cargo cult of masculinity and it doesn't work. You want to be the guard dog of a people who thinks dogs are worse than wolves.

[Anonymous No.19626909]

>>19623984
Thanks for posting; I didn't know that guy.

[Anonymous No.19626952]

The smartest people aren’t frog posting, those are retards with a superiority complex. The smartest people in the world are all unironically working for advertising firms or in bulk data collection.

[Anonymous No.19626998]

>>19624794
This sentiment of yours, I’ve noticed, is the new cope strategy of the Left. In the face of overwhelming evidence in contradiction to your fake and gay and kosher narratives you have stopped arguing in support of your positions and now just pretend it was always this bad lol.

[Anonymous No.19627004]

The smartest men are continuing to advance maths and science as they always have, the pseuds are continuing to jerk each other off as they always have. Coping faggots.

[Anonymous No.19627007]

>>19626998
You are upset you don't have power while your enemies have the power to be incompetent. Luxuries don't last but you are not any more deserving of power yourself.

[Anonymous No.19627026]

>>19624900
Very based. Good luck to you. I hope you succeed. I’ve had similar ideas but I’ve come to the conclusion that our puppeteered West can only be changed (saved) through accumulating money and power on which it currently runs. Either that or start a new religion fundamentally based on based and red pilled values.

[Anonymous No.19627059]

>>19627004
this

[Anonymous No.19627067]

>>19627007
When you bypass the argument and go straight for the ad hominem you are basically saying the following: “You are correct but I am too cowardly and emotionally invested in my religion to change my 110 IQ mind.”

[Anonymous No.19627076]

>>19627067
No, dear election tourist, I have no horse in this race. But dialectic is for the powerless. Those in actual power can always ask their opponents "do you feel in charge" and dismiss them. They have become impressively lazy of late. But they've no need for some advanced intellectual framework to justify their political agenda because they are not weak. They do what benefits them and offer the most vapid justification, which is all they need to do.

[Anonymous No.19627114]

>>19626856
I think the problems we encounter now are most obvious in what women and minorities promote, but the leveling demanded by them seems to be more an internal problem with the nature of democracy; (from a democrat's perspective) if democracy as such is "good", then the expansion of the franchise seems to follow, good following from good. This is obviously arguable. The situation we find ourselves in can obviously be attributed to women and minorities, but this evades the issue of scientific or philosophical natures; there's plenty of white men, not just now, but in history, incapable of living up to our highest ideals, and similarly, there have been the mass of women and minorities throughout history who have not brought about the kind of crisis we seem to find ourselves in. Ultimately, I think this all gets its first wheels with the Enlightenment thinkers (Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes), who, though nobly trying to end civil religious conflicts and protect philosophy, have inadvertently given us this whole mess by reducing the goal of politics from virtue to pleasure and stability.

As for SJC, I took it, once I considered it, that the Barr-Buchanon program is indefensible (because masturbating over great ideas in a relativistic and still beholden to modern perspectives way), and that the Klein-Strauss vision was worthy because it restored something like the questioning of the ancient Greeks regarding prevailing opinions, botb about the opinions held in general and the opinions of "the West" or "the tradition". I will say that while I sympathize with your anxiety over them, the approach of treating it all as a matter for honor's sake is also to disregard the program itself in favor of opinion instead of knowledge. Plato respected Homer enough to quote him in almost every dialogue, but he was bold enough to set him on trial in the Republic instead of merely take him for granted as traditionalist seem to want.

[Anonymous No.19627137]

>>19623908
>You will live to see philosopher kings come about via 4channel and crypto
What an annoying time to be alive.

[Anonymous No.19627227]

lol at everyone arguing about the philosophical origins for the mess we're in today when the very simple (yet truthful) answer is that Jews are simply deranged and when they're in power they abuse others.

[Anonymous No.19627233]

>>19624900
There are no more Great Books curricula?

[Anonymous No.19627249]

>>19627076
>appeal to authority
ebin

[Anonymous No.19627291]

>>19623908
This is stupid as fuck but I bet it triggered so much twitter seethe that it's ok in my book

[Anonymous No.19627367]

>>19627076
> lazy uninspiring superficial morons are in charge, but no, I have no horse in this race...
> N-no, I'm just running interference for them for no particular reason!
An unsatisfactory set of core values and myths is the first ingredient in the overthrow of a belief system since it undermines the quality and quantity of public servants and proselytizers you can recruit. If technology allows you to keep the people pacified regardless, the system will survive internal conflict, but not contradiction or external enemies.
You gotta cope

[Anonymous No.19627389]

>>19624563
This, "the general population is retarded" is undoubtedly the most reliable indicator of mid-wittery.

[Anonymous No.19627394]

>>19627389
Where's the lie tho? People generally follow whatever is most personally convenient for them in the moment at the expense of long term stability and survival of their group.

[Anonymous No.19627399]

>>19623922
they may as well not be they are completely captured by the system

[Anonymous No.19627404]

>>19627389
>seethe over true statement because it is sometimes repeated by people i dislike
Contrarian faggot

[Anonymous No.19627406]

>>19627389
based. Imagine being a psychotic incel who believes in "NPC"s.

[Anonymous No.19627409]

>>19627406

[Anonymous No.19627416]

>>19624899
Let me assure you that I am fully conscious of how much I hate women.

[Anonymous No.19627434]

>>19625719
They aren't white anon, the nose knows.

[Anonymous No.19627449]

>>19627394
Tell me, how have the works of your most respected intellectuals improved the long term survivability of their groups?
Plumbers and farmers have contributed to this objective much more than any of them.
I don't understand why you equate that statement with non-retardation.

[Anonymous No.19627480]

>>19627404
It's not true, if find this statement retarded even when it is uttered by people with which I politically/ideologically agree.
It's a midwit indicator because it is solely the result of a contradiction bias. Think about the most retarded ideological stance one could have, well I can assure you that if this stance is held my a minority, it considers the unapproving majority to be retarded.
Only because the majority doesn't agree with them.
Now I don't say that the general population is wise, in my opinion it proves itself not to be when voting for presidents, for instance. But it's not because the average person is retarded, it's mostly because women and children get to vote, and they are obviously more sensitive to the enormous and all-powerful dogma that dictates the outcome of democratic choices.
If only men above 25 were allowed to vote, then the political choices of the population would be much more rational and aligned with what is required to build a better future for the country. It has nothing to do with the average worker/citizen being retarded.

[Anonymous No.19627482]

>>19627449
Studies have shown that when around 10% of the population adopts a certain ideology or belief, the rest of the population will always assimilate to it. Inspired and zealous people tend to be far more motivated to improve their situation and grow in power while the general populace are "just wanna grill" types who simply want to live in peace, a noble goal. But they're often unaware of the bigger picture and depending on the situation, demoralized, which causes them to retreat further into the "just wanna grill" to cope with their situation and as an attempt to appease their ruling powers.

"Intellectuals" improve their groups by lifting the spirits of the population and proving that change is possible and the only thing you have to do is try.

[Anonymous No.19627538]

>>19627409
They'll get laid eventually. You won't. Cope.

[Anonymous No.19627544]

>>19627538
lol no they won't.

[Anonymous No.19627577]

>>19627482
Except today's intellectual do nothing but drag us further into the abyss. At least the grilling dude just grills.

[Anonymous No.19627583]

>>19627577
I think it depends on what definition of "intellectual" you use since it's a very vague word. College academics who sit around and do nothing but shill marxism are pathetic. I'm more speaking about political dissidents who aren't afraid to tell globohomo to go fuck themselves.

[Anonymous No.19627614]

>>19627544
fucking christ this is sad anon

[Anonymous No.19627619]

>>19623908
ladies and gentlemen, your answer to "do geniuses still exist?"

[Anonymous No.19627621]

>>19627583
being an "intellectual" is nothing more than an affectation. if you are obsessed with appearing intelligent, you're too juvenile to have meaningful opinions on any subject

>tell globohomo to go fuck themselves.
conspiratorial thinking is indicative of profound stupidy 99 times out of 100

[Anonymous No.19627625]

>>19627619
Of course they do, they either work in very niche works of science or dead end jobs, their ideas are unable to touch the masses because they are being actively suppressed.

[Anonymous No.19627629]

>>19627621
No shit I'm not the one who brought up "intellectuals"
>conspiratorial thinking is indicative of profound stupidy 99 times out of 100
Are you seriously suggesting that there isn't a problem right now?

[Anonymous No.19627634]

>>19627625
can you name some

[Anonymous No.19627636]

>>19627406
Why yes, the Jews who wrote the Talmud are psychotic incels.

[Anonymous No.19627643]

>>19623914
Nobody posts anything smart with frogs, and with anime its rare, and with anime jugs its never anything else but coomposting.

[Anonymous No.19627647]

>>19627634
Me, of course

[Anonymous No.19627661]

>>19627647
looks like you're part of the masses

[Anonymous No.19627910]

>>19625127
Zappa is American, not French.

[Anonymous No.19627917]

>>19627629
>Are you seriously suggesting that there isn't a problem right now?
oh but there are plenty, and they can be understood by examining the material world. not by inventing some global jewish hive mind and blaming it for everything

[Anonymous No.19627930]

not since 9/11, no

[Anonymous No.19627943]

>>19627661
And you've inferred that from 3 sentences?
Classic syndrome of R*ddit retardness

[Anonymous No.19628433]

>>19624900
I have a buddy who goes to SJC right now. He said the atmosphere is overwhelmingly erudite and Platonist. He has a fair amount of Christian friends (who are very rationally embedded in their faith). I hope what you’re saying isn’t true.

[Anonymous No.19628678]

>>19627389
You know, something like 1/6 of the population are functionally illiterate? On top of that, there are millions of people marginally more intelligent than them. I'm not saying this to be edgy or self-aggrandizing but if you can read a complex, unfamiliar text on something you're not already educated on and still articulate a semi-coherent response then you're in the upper echelons of cognitive ability. In a first world country. It's an astonishing tragedy (and not one exclusive to the States, if that's what yer thinking).

[Anonymous No.19628688]

>>19623922
>Academics are still around.

[Anonymous No.19628698]

>>19628678
just look at how many people don't understand how mrna vaccines work. not if they're safe or effective or anything controversial, i just mean how the tech works. from anti-vaxxers to psycho karens looking foward to their next booster, i find very few people i meet even know how they work and that they are different from past vaccines. it's not super esoteric or obscure either, you just need some basic curiosity about this technology that is being rapidly deployed worldwide.

[Anonymous No.19628704]

>>19624109
He is right though. I am an academic. The majority of them are useless, inept cowards that only do what they are told to.

[Anonymous No.19628716]

>>19624109
huh? academia is non-profit and most funding comes from government grants. academic sucks, but it's certainly not from excessive capitalism. in fact, i'd say the departments that do commercializable research are the ones you consider the most legitimate.

[Anonymous No.19628720]

>>19628716
>huh? academia is non-profit and most funding comes from government grants. academic sucks, but it's certainly not from excessive capitalism. in fact, i'd say the departments that do commercializable research are the ones you consider the most legitimate.

So this is the average /lit/ poster, wow...

[Anonymous No.19628733]

>>19628720
i work in academia. how's walmart? they gave you christmas off?

[Anonymous No.19628847]

>>19624563
>frank zappa
>a nobody
How does it feel being so retarded anon? I have always been curious what it is like going through life being as dumb as you are

[Anonymous No.19628854]

>>19624563
>>19627389
If you dont know most people are borderline retarded, it is because you are too. Nice projection though

[Anonymous No.19628874]

>>19625769
The American Left does not have a foundation of continental philosophy. Save for Nietzsche and Foucault.

[Anonymous No.19628890]

>>19628854
If you scream "retard" into a room whoever gets offended are the retards, and they know it. which is why they got offended

[Anonymous No.19628958]

>>19627917
>it's all in your mind goy
Yah ...no. fuck off retard

[Anonymous No.19628977]

>>19627917
strangely enough half a world away, in an isolated culture they are having the exact same "problems" we are (and 109 other cultures had throughout the last 300 years). What an astronomical coincidence right? It seems there is always the same common denominator when these "problems" pop up in a civilization

[Anonymous No.19628982]

>>19628977
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.19628990]

>>19628977
*3000 years