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21245746 No.21245746 [Reply] [Original]

will reading all of lits top 100 novels make me a proper intellectual?

>> No.21245755

what do people mean when they say intellectual?

>> No.21245756

Perhaps, but why bother when you can read none of them and become a proper pseudo-intellectual instead?

>> No.21245758

>>21245746
It will make you a proper pseud

>> No.21245765

>>21245746
it will undoubtably make you well read but I also doubt you are capable of completing it.

>> No.21245804

what do people mean when they say intellectual?

>> No.21245810

>>21245804
im serious, i dont understand what do people mean by this
do they just want to be seen as smart?

>> No.21245817

>>21245810
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society

>> No.21245822

>>21245810
>I don't understand the word
>This automatically makes the word pretentious

>> No.21245824

>>21245746
>fiction
>intellectual
this nigga baka

>> No.21245827

>>21245817
alright but what's the endgame of being an intellectual? for what purpose is this done?
is it advancement of mankind? its the first thought i had on it, and this would mean that effectively less than 0.001% of human population since we started recording history were intellectuals because they advanced the mankind

>> No.21245841

>>21245827
Nigga this is a conversation I've had with myself before, what's the answer though?

>> No.21245843

>>21245827
There's no need to advance mankind, everything you do must be a reflection of yourself

>> No.21245850

>>21245746
No, but it will almost certainly improve your life drastically in a way that is completely barred to 99% of people.
I am going to have read all 100 by 30.

>> No.21245884
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>>21245810
I suppose it initially meant that the person in question, the "intellectual", depended on their "intellect" as the means of making their earnings. Profession-based, meaning they do not engage in actual labour (construction, for example), but in intellectual "labour" like teachers, programmers, journalists etc. etc.

50 years ago, I guess, it meant something, but today it's just a term used by small town homosexuals with something to prove, which were bullied all the way to the big cities, to use to pat each other (and, most importantly, themselves) on the back in order to distinguish themselves from the common proles.
It's a bourgie perversion of city living.

Given how labour-focused this definition is, take it with a grain of salt for obvious reasons.

>> No.21245885

>>21245843
I personify the european diaspora

>> No.21246997

Only if you actually have a proper think about each of them and don't just tear thru them with the sole of finishing them and not enjoying them.