I remember Nietzsche saying somewhere that members of the herd that attempt to become cultured and distinguished are more disgusting than simple normal people who accept their normalcy.
Do yall lit faggits agree with this assesment?
I feel as if only smart people really engage genuinely with cultural things (say, literature, art, classical music...), and the ones who are of medium or lower intelligence tend to do it by forcing it upon themselves in order to feel superior. This, in turn, leads to self-hatred because they repress their more primitive impulses.
You basically end up with stuck up, miserable people who's lives are dry since they don't have a natural inclination from their own passions to cultural things. It ends up with idiots who've just memorized a bunch of bullshit without a real purpose behind it.
>If you ask me whether I think the populace, especially the poor, should be recognized as citizens who can rule the state, I answer in a voice of thunder, "Yes." If you ask me whether I think they ought to have education, in the sense of a wide culture and familiarity with the classics of history, I again answer, "Yes." But there is, in the achievement of this purpose, a sort of snag or recoil that can only be discovered by experience and does not appear in print at all. It is not allowed for on paper [ . . . ]. Yet it is at this moment an exceedingly practical part of practical politics; and, while it has been a political problem for a very long time past, it is a little more marked (if I may stain these serene and impartial pages with so political a suggestion) under recent conditions that have brought so many highly respectable Socialists and widely respected Trade Union officials to the front.
>The snag in it is this: that the self-educated think far too much of education. I might add that the half-educated always think everything of education. That is not a fact that appears on the surface of the social plan or ideal; it is the sort of thing that can only be discovered by experience. When I said that I wanted the popular feeling to find political expression, I meant the actual and autochthonous popular feeling as it can be found in third-class carriages and bean-feasts and bank-holiday crowds; and especially, of course (for the earnest social seeker after truth), in public-houses. I thought, and I still think, that these people are right on a vast number of things on which the fashionable leaders are wrong. The snag is that when one of these people begins to "improve himself" it is exactly at that moment that I begin to doubt whether it is an improvement. He seems to me to collect with remarkable rapidity a number of superstitions, of which the most blind and benighted is what may be called the Superstition of School. He regards School, not as a normal social institution to be fitted in to other social institutions, like Home and Church and State; but as some sort of entirely supernormal and miraculous moral factory, in which perfect men and women are made by magic. To this idolatry of School he is ready to sacrifice Home and History and Humanity, with all its instincts and possibilities, at a moment's notice. To this idol he will make any sacrifice, especially human sacrifice. And at the back of the mind, especially of the best men of this sort, there is almost always one of two variants of the same concentrated conception: either "If I had not been to School I should not be the great man I am now," or else "If I had been to school I should be even greater than I am."
>>7874351
Damn. Everybody BTFO.
>>7874351
>states that the Dunnon-Kruger effect applies to one specific instance
Who thinks this is compelling? Is it Catholics, Englishmen, fatties or a combination of the three?
>>7874456
moar like everybody tldr amirite
>>7874351
Chesterton? what book is this from?
>>7874293
Honest lowbrow is more attractive than middlebrow. If you're going to appear cultured you should never look like you put effort into it.
>>7874293
Isn't that the guy who was mentally ill and went crazy
Maybe he was onto something ,he should of accepted a simpler life
>>7874535
If anyone made such a mistake, it was me and not Chesterton. Chesterton has not hinted one bit that a "Dunnong-Kruger Effect" is any way related to what he means.
It's true. Think about memes. The guy who is a meme master, who knows every meme inside and out and can talk in-depth about all the highest quality memes and meme history, and who can produce a fresh and high quality meme—this is okay. Your mum and dad, who know no memes and aren't interested in becoming memers, are also okay. But that one piece of shit who knows only a handful of memes and worships them—who never fails to say things like "u salty bro? I'm tasting a lot of salt right now", or "top kek m8"—he is truly the most disgusting human being you can has the misfortune of meeting.
>>7876048
>you can has
cheezburger? ROFLCOPTER
