/sci/ - Science & Math

No doubt.
>be a normie
>realize you are retarded
>ignore it completely with all your might

whats a normie exactly

>>7903006
It's difficult for most people to fight against ignorance and complacency because they serve as their own coping mechanisms. Being a dumbass is honestly one of the best ways you can stop yourself from feeling bad about being a dumbass. Other defenses have a role as well, among them avoidant traits (Euthyphro,) rationalizing (popsci shit, low-tier fox/msnbc ideologues, embrace of uninformed and imitative moral/aesthetic/intellectual sense, etc. substituted for the real deal to make its absence less conspicuous, kinda like suboxone) and overcompensation.

So I wouldn't say that they truly enjoy it in itself, but that acting as though they did is the path of least resistance. This also emerges on a social level (nerd resentment, "ayy Jamal be ackin white again mayne") because culture and society are themselves built around these coping mechanisms to a modest extent - challenging others' right to mediocrity by existing is taken as a threat to their identities. So equilibrium is restored by shunning, "commercializing" (every meme referencing Einstein) or pathologizing (Big Bang Theory and its ilk) the "obscene." Greatness must be repackaged wherever it emerges to keep the wonders of human endeavor a comfortably abstract, emotionally distant thing.

>>7903055
I want to post a fedora at you but I realize how ironic that would be.

>>7903055
>tip

also, your point falls apart when you look at how glorified le nerd culture xd is. Also, at least where I've gone to school, pretty much everyone wishes they were smarter, and the people who are retarded realize and hate it. please keep /r9k/ philosophy bullshit to /b/ so people can screencap it and feel enlightened or something.

>>7903006
Ignorance is bliss.

>>7903055

But where does the self obsession to become smarter come into play? What void causes one to have an everlasting need for knowledge because that is arguably not the human condition...

A void, or a messiah comple perchance?

>>7903092
Something similar is happening at the college i go to, except nobody seems to care that they are retarded. The le nerd culture is strong here, lots of people like to pretend to be smart and tend to spout bullshit about science very easily. It angered me one day that someone actually made up the term "doppler radiation" to explain how a doppler radar works, and so I attempted to lecture them on the doppler effect. If you can believe it, the girl that made up "doppler radiation" flat out told me I was wrong, and refused to talk to me later.
I would avoid these people, but I'm required to take a certain number of humanities classes to complete my physics degree.
Though I don't think you're entirely wrong. I have only seen this mentality in lower level humanities students (almost completely in history and literature, actually).
Everyone in my math/physics classes are either actually level 30 master wizards who actually do know fucking everything, and the rest are people who are desperately struggling, complaining that they should have been born smarter.

The le nerd culture hardly implies that anyone involved actually wants to be smart. It's just a passing trend (probably spurred on by TBBT) that people use as a means of socializing. Next time you see a le nerdy guy, ask him what he thinks about mathematics.

>>7903592
>the girl that made up "doppler radiation" flat out told me I was wrong
What the fuck? But the doppler effect is literally HS-tier physics man. It explains the fucking downpitches as sound waves move away from you and redshifting in light. I hope she was just acting...if not, your college needs to lower the fuck out of its acceptence rate.

>>7903092
"Le nerd culture xd" is part of what I meant by popsci. This is evidence for my point

>>7903546
Could be many things. Self-hatred / feelings of inferiority, overt narcissism, covert narcissism coupled with accidental learning beyond the superficial level, legitimate interest in a subject... etc.

>>7903543
this