who /psuedointellectual/ here?
>>7908797
...giving you the exact right answer
me sometimes, especially cuz im lazier than ever
im not even pseudo intelectual. I've accepted my retardedness. I've learned to see the futility in all intelectual pursuits, the arrogance in thinking that a single human of decent but not great intelligence can really improve the immense pool of philosophical and scientifical knowledge that already exists. It's a very dreadful, impotent, humbly honest position to take.
I try to learn things and work them into my daily life
The constant pursuit does give some purpose in itself, even if I have no one to share the knowledge with
who /grewupsmartandprecociousbutisturningouttobecrushinglyaverage/ here?
who /pseudointellectualbutstillgoingtotakeoutthousandsinloanstogotoschoolforsomethingyourenotevengoodat/ here?
>>7909090
me too brah :) glad to find im not alone in this bullshit pseud condition
>>7909090
>>7909102
>>7909128
>memeing this hard
who /smartbutlazy/ here?
>>7909068
Sounds like everyone I know who used to make house music.
>>7908720
'Intellectual' is vestigial spook borne from outdated forms of knowledge distribution. No such thing anymore
The greatest joy in life is pretending to be smart. I figured this out at a young age and it has continually been reproven to me throughout my life.
So I have honed my sophistic skills. I know how to present myself differently to different people. I give the impression of modesty for the sake of feeding my ego. I keep track of my assumed positions so I can put on a guise of consistency. I created an entire system of metaphysics that is of no use beyond making me look intelligent. Even now I exaggerate the intellectual rigor of my activities out of vanity.
I didn't choose the smug life. The smug life chose me. I don't know how to live any other way.
>>7909090
you, me and john green
>>7909271
This was what Molnar said in Decline of the Intellectual. Intellectuals are anachronistic in this day and age. They're too moderate to effect change, and too intelligent to pander to the masses.
>>7909275
That's really sad. I hope one day you can accept yourself.
>>7909275
Unfortunately, you can only fool dirty plebs that way.
>>7909275
Let me guess, you're between 18 and 23?
>>7909275
i do that with liberalism, i can't stand marxist shit and whiney sjw fag shit, but i have to keep up appearances, plus being politically correct is good for your career, but boy sometimes it takes a lot of energy to come up with new excuses for black failure and degeneracy of the homosexual agenda
>>7909333
this, real niggas move in silence
>>7909275
Saving this
>>7908720
At the other end of this, if I think you are bullshitting me or anyone I know within earshot, I challenge your shit and we play a game to find out who's dick is bigger. I find it entertaining but know it's dickhole bullying.
>>7908720
>tfw someone calls you an intellectual in public
the point is not to give up while being a pseudo intellectual. everyone starts somewhere. being pseudoX, amateur or whatever is just a phase if you keep pursuing knowledge
we're all gonna make it bruhs
>>7909068
>claims he's not a pseudointellectual
>phrases 'i've learned to accept my stupidity' in the most elaborate way he can
>im not even pseudo intelectual.
>the arrogance in thinking that a single human of decent but not great intelligence can really improve the immense pool of philosophical and scientifical knowledge
OK BUD
>>7909252
This tbqh
>>7909252
It's not that I'm lazy, I'm just not good doing things I don't enjoy. I don't want to do something that'll suck because, even though I'm not making money, I value my time. I am doing what I enjoy like reading, browsing the internet, taking walks, etc, but if I were to sell my time doing something I don't enjoy I don't think it'd be worth it.
I used to work in landscaping with my friend and that was okay. It was menial work and gave me a lot of time to think, and a lot of time to read in the truck on the way to work. Not a Mexican, by the way. I only have so much time on this earth and would rather do something other people say is useless than do something I don't want to.
I also have the thing of if I don't like something, I don't really do it to the best of my ability so it's a waste of my time as well. Things I'm interested in I do well, but I don't want to waste mine or anyone's time doing something I don't enjoy and giving off a poopoo job, you know?
I trick everyone I meet into thinking I am smart but I truly just have a decent general knowledge, I have no specialised knowledge in any field including my degree (which I have almost finished)
I have my opinions praised on this very board even though I barely read
mere pawns in my game, all of you
Inb4 plato
I was, but now I'm more of a resentful anti-intellectual.
>>7909252
Me. I'm lazy because I can afford it.
>>7909359
Fucking this. Jesus, fuck.
>>7909359
/lit/
I think so, it's the curse of being relatively articulate.
>>7909275
okay biff
>>7909949
u an INTP m8?
My friend think I'm smart and intellectual just because they read only one book a year.
They don't know I'm just a massive wanker.
>>7910155
I've never taken the test so I just did. Apparently yes. Why?
>tfw reasonably intelligent but spent a fair amount of my adolescence in a place where being smart in any way meant you were ostracized
>now i hide my power level out of some subconscious shame
Slowly getting over it at least. I've been hearing the saying "yeah, anon is ACTUALLY really smart" quite a lot recently
I've always got an A or at least a B in philosophy class albeit never having really read any of the philosophers we discussed. I just paraphrased what /lit/ was saying about them
>>7910137
I didn't understand the picture. What is message trying to convey?
I have all of the necessary cognitive faculties to be well read, but I work an active 7-7 graveyard shift that leaves me mostly dead inside so instead I just listen to lectures on the fly and give my wife the remaining life I have in me.
All my friends and co-workers constantly tell me how I'm super smart and underachieving.
I'm petrified at the prospect of going to uni and finding out just how average I am.
Classmates: "You are a genius!"
My friends: "You are so stupid.."
I believe it depends on the situation. My friends believe I'm stupid because they usually discuss relationships and ordinary life-stuff that I can't be bothered with so obviously I come off as dumb when I know nothing about them. My classmates believe I'm a sort of a genius, but that's because they lack general interest in our field and I'm diving head first to learn about it. Frankly I believe all people are clever but in their own ways.The saying "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” really applies.
I remember in high school, one of my classmates was not that clever and it didn't look like he would even pass the classes. He shaped up enough to get out of high school but he was just overall a hyper-energetic kid who shouldn't been forced to stay at the school bench for as long as he had to. What is he doing now? Owning his own farm and making millions more than any of my classmates currently (keep in mind we are all 22–23 years old). It's not that he was stupid, he just lacked interest because all he wanted to do was to tend the farm and drive tractors. To be fair he probably isn't as intelligent as most of my classmates but does intelligence matter as long as you can provide for yourself?
>>7910274
>"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
It would have to be a pretty stupid fish to accept that judgement. Conversely, a really intelligent fish to understand judgement and the tree climbing competition.
>>7908909
>>7908720
Sometimes I wonder about the truest way to measure intelligence. I've realised that a person is only as smart to the extent which they express their intelligence. You might have the capacity to write great literature, or develop the next big scientific breakthrough, or whatever else, but if you do not use this ability, doesn't that just make you an idiot? If that is the case, then I'm an absolute dumbass. I read, sure, but I'm terrible at school, and I don't really do anything in my spare time besides browsing the web. I'm strangely ok with that.
>>7910332
join the club senpai. are you sure that you being ok with not doing anything in spare time besides browsing the web is strange? are you sure its just not laziness and complacency?
just a heads up. this strange okayness/laziness/complacency will fuck you up later when you realize the life/potential you gave away by browsing the web. when the ill effects begin to become really evident, you will hate your current self. I say that because i hate my past self.
>>7910174
Oh, I see. It's interesting to know that I am not alone in my ideas here because everyone else around me doesn't understand. My friend is currently working his ass off at a job he hates just so his wife and child can get manicures and pedicures and shit. I told him they didn't need that stuff to be happy, but if they don't have the latest garbage then they're not okay.
He's the only one working too, which is also infuriating. It's not like he works at a company or something. He does stuff like landscaping or property something or other, so he's not pulling in loads on a salary. He's working hourly and working himself to death. I don't get it.
>>7909932
I hate it when I casually mention some passage in a poem or some bit of history and I get called an intellectual
People often fail to realize I'm an anti-intellectual intellectual
>>7910332
I have had the same thought, so allow me to offer two questions which helped me think about it.
1 Does your public status (or the absence thereof) matter more than the local reputation you gain through idle conversation with friends and loved ones?
2 Martin Amis says somewhere that, minus the man of letters part, what Nabokov said of himself was true of most men: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child." If you take what you said and look at it another way, is it not equally true that idiots and great men alike have a vivid inner life and a genius which their writing does not quite capture? It this not occasion for some kind of hope?
>>7909252
>literally believing what everyone says to stone cold retards to give them a little self esteem
>>7909949
>Not a Mexican, by the way.
What did he mean by this?
>>7912206
Most people think landscaping is nothing but Mexicans, so I just put it as a disclaimer.
>>7909275
Everyone is freaking out over this post like theyve never learned how a psychopathic mind works.
>>7910199
it is a meme from /leftypol/ over on crippled chan
they whine about how they cant hijack this board with their childish antics and everyone who disagrees with their ideas about anarcho syndicalism which have a whole 15 minutes of research from wikipedia behind them is /pol/
>>7909275
>Hanging around with dumb people to feel smart.
Honestly, fake it until you make it.
I used to be a pseudo intellectual, so I started reading all these classic books and philosophical works so people would think I was smart. And at some point you stop pretending and it becomes genuine. I'm not saying I'm an intellectual, but I've come a long way. And I have a long way to go.
>>7908720
>failed a lot in school
>had a lot of learning difficulties at an early age
>discover the Internet and find an interest in books
>learn to articulate pretty well when I'm talking to people
>know a bunch of shitty useless facts
>now constantly get the whole "but you're intelligent" bullshit from family, friends and therapists when I open up about stuff like how my life is going nowhere since I'm an academic failure
>half of the time my ego scares me out of telling them the truth about how stupid I am and how much I struggle with so many basic things
I fit into all the stereotypes people give intellectuals, I'm a socially retarded loner, I keep to myself playing Vidya or reading shitty books, and I know a bunch of obscure useless stuff that anyone can look up on the Internet. I just don't have any real intellect.
People would come to me in class looking for answers and shit, and all I really knew better than them was how to google the right information. I ended up getting worse results than anyone that said I was smart. I need to kill myself.
>>7909275
fucking kek, I enjoy doing this too. it's funny how many people don't pick up on it.
>>7912630
protip: you're not smart, just pedantic
>>7909949
Isn't that called ADHD-PI?
>>7908720
nah
>>7912645
I just looked it up and yeah it kind of seems like it based on those symptoms. I want to see a psychiatrist, sort of. I don't have insurance so it'll be out of pocket but lol no money!!!! Everyone I know keeps telling me I have asperger's in the non-joking manner, and I'd like to see what someone else that doesn't know me and could actually diagnose stuff would say about it. Amongst other things.
Just can't afford it. At the same time though I don't want to go. I don't really want to know if there is something wrong with me or my brain or whatever.
>>7912228
There's no need to cater to the prejudiced. It made you sound racist.
>>7912658
I don't care.
>>7912658
>It made you sound racist.
Most people outside the self-insulating progressive bubble don't care about the racist boogeyman anymore. You cried wolf too many times and made yourself look ridiculous.
>>7912663
My money is on white.
>>7912669
I thought you were against racial prejudice? How did you reconcile your hypocrisy with your sanctimony?
>>7912672
You think too much, pseud.
>>7912630
Pseudo intellectual here. This will not actually make you smart, a lot of studies have shown that genetics are a larger contributor to intelligence than environment, and environmental factors begin to play a much less impressive role as you grow older and take shape. In truth, if you do not have a stunning Mensa IQ intellect already, you cannot gain one, even through hard work. At most you can become another inferior ape with a vocabulary a cut above the rest, but you will never know what it means to be half as inherently great as the men whose work you may now parrot.
I'm just a dumbfucking lunatic. My WAIS scores range from 144 to 80. I'm poorly read, and barely find time to read anything. I spend all my time arguing (shitposting) on the internet. I've made nothing, don't know how to do anything, am majoring in a subject I'm bad at because I wanted money, and have ascribed myself a false character I'm unable to live up to largely out of facile imitation of a man I love who genuinely is brilliant, useful, and great.
>>7912643
Wait, are you saying reading classic books doesn't make you smarter?
>>7912632
Go into politics buddy, you just need to learn not to care about people, it's a popularity contest of who seems the smartest, pay's good and hours short.
>>7912632
im in your same boat. I dont even have a GED, but everyone, and i mean everyone that i come in contact with is literally retarded and regards me as some wise sage with "college shit" that im always talking about, or based on the fact that i know various things about a wide range of things. I try to tell people im not really that smart because im not. I am intelligent, like you.
Smart people dont make the best people. you could have a masters in engineering and be the scum of the earth. I dont know jack shit, but i can solve problems and live with some common sense. Life is pretty much like a drivers license; 99% of people that have them dont belong on the road, and completely forget how to drive if theres even one drop of rain. You are the one percent. you're the driver that doesnt slow down, and doesnt put their fourways on in a downpour. You just drive.
>>7912519
neither do you if you think that's what a psychopath is
>>7912643
How is that a tip?
>>7909359
This post is undervalued tbqhwy
Last three digits are my IQ
![ryangrexfeatures_1510718a[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/i3Ba3Jc.jpg "ryangrexfeatures_1510718a[1].jpg")
>>7913002
>You just drive
>>7909963
iktf
>>7909277
If that's the case, then hooray for you guys, you can still make mountains of cash & teen pussy off of poorly written YA novels.
>>7908720
"Intellectualism" is a waste. Bourgeoisie judeo-masonic masturbation, truly disgusting.
>>7912679
>IQ
Yep, you truly a pseud
>>7913283
>"Intellectualism" is a waste
indeed
be educated, but not an "intellectual"
>>7912645
Not him, but exactly same work ethics, same way of focusing and same MBTI (although that last one doesn't mean shit); I was kinda diagnosed with that back when I was 13 or so.
>>7909949
el mexicANO seniores
>>7913315
Honestly probably just this. Truth is these symptoms are from a shit load of people . No one likes doing shit they don't want to or like
Some conjecture with maymay arrows:
>IQ is heavily influenced by genes, 120 markers+
>IQ is poorly correlated to anything of value, after a certain upper range your chances of success actually go down.
>Grades strongly correlate to intelligence. If you had bad grades, you're probably below average, not just lazy. Many studies in this area are dropped before getting published for political reasons
>Intelligence is best defined as the speed in which you learn
>Pseudo-intellectualism is a coveted trait only if you can pull it off as sincere intellectualism. It will greatly help your career and social prospects.
>Not knowing how to explain something may mean that you don't know that something at all. >There is a difference between knowing the names of things and knowing things.
Who /genunielyretarded/ here?
I'm in a PhD program and we were talking to a guy who graduated and went to work in industry. He said that you get used to everyone around you being smart in academia, so when you get to industry, you're back to being the smartest person in the room and it's a bit of a jarring transition. Must be nice desu senpai.
>>7914780
big fish small pond
>>7914732
I am! Me!
I think parents like mine should be made infertile and voluntary euthanasia should be made legal(even recommended) for genetically and mentally fucked over people who are clearly going nowhere or not contributing to society. It's just cruel to let retards force their retarded life upon something by having kids, crueler still to force those kids to stick around in constant suffering just to satisfy some retard ethics.
>this thread
Cringed pretty hard senpai.
>>7909275
but all of this requires intelligence, you dumb fucking retard
>>7910184
hahaha
thanks parents for cucking me out of social life from the beginning
>>7912658
I'm Mexican, it doesn't matter, shut the fuck up.
Hey guys, I'm fairly young and I want to become a well-read intellectual patrician. How old were you guys when you started? And how exactly do I start?
In the grand scheme of things I'm average at the very best.
But for the most part I'm surrounded with genuine retards so I appear a lot better than I am
https://thephilosophersmeme.com/
>>7909252
Who /smartbutunabletoexpressmyself/ here?
>>7915372
erm.. I.. Well kinda
/wanttoknowpeoplebutrealizethismeanstheyhavetoknowmeandhowunintelligentireallyam/
>>7915396
Same here. Except for me, it's not so much how stupid I am, but also mentally unstable. I've hurt and been hurt by enough people to learn that it is better to just stay quiet, stay out of the way, and stay alone. If I don't embarrass myself with mental deficiency I'll sure as hell find a way to do it with mental instability.
It's why part of the reason I never post anywhere but 4chan. I lurk other sites, but anywhere that requires me to have a name or identify myself to join in scares the shit out of me.
>>7909068
Is this bait?honest question
>>7915616
Haha, i can see how it'd look like bait, but it's mostly writen like that (with such pretentiousness) cause i try to use 4chan posts to improve my english since i barely get to use it elsewhere. But yeah i'm being honest in that i've lost most of my pretentious of ever being an intelectual at this point.
>>7915831
>cause i try to use 4chan posts to improve my english
You're not trying very hard.
>>7915851
You never know, he could be trying his best. That is one of the many woes of being a retard, everyone believes that anything can be achieved simply through enough effort and that if we're not all perfect it's simply because we're not trying hard enough. Is that idea perpetrated because of naturally excellent people who cannot empathize with the limitations of others and hold them to an unrealistic standard, or the /lazybutsmart/ kids lying to themselves who want to pretend they're secretly amazing and just haven't tried to reach their full potential yet? Probably both.
I at least appreciate the people in this thread who are honest and admit their limitations, even if they try to appear as more.
>>7914898
CHI
>>7913476
>>IQ is heavily influenced by genes, 120 markers+
No it isn't. It's a pattern recognition skill that can be acquired. If you scored < 120 on an IQ test here's a remedy: Get a MSc in pure mathematics and take the test again. Watch the IQ go up.
Genes influence computation, retention, and recall speed. That's all. All else is a matter of having a huge database of knowledge.
>Grades strongly correlate to intelligence.If you had bad grades, you're probably below average, not just lazy.
That's just stupid. I can cheat and get high grades. Am I intelligent? No. Also, If I have no motivation to learn some subject--however trivial--I will declare it boring or trivial or uninteresting (which does NOT mean that you're lazy: rather, you choose to spend your time wisely on things that are not boring) and simply ignore it.
>>Not knowing how to explain something may mean that you don't know that something at all.
Einstein said this and it was silly of him to say this. Please explain something like the proof of the ABC conjecture to your mom or to the average man on the street.
>>7909090
Terrible at anything that could make me money. The only thing I enjoy is reading fairy tales. I don't even write.
Pseudointellectual is basically the modern term for a liberal arts major
>>7908720
I'm mildly self-educated, but I don't put much stock in the "intellectual" label.
Dilettante would be a better word.
>>7908720
>like to read
>procrastinate reading
>takes me a month to finish a 1700 page book
>took me 3 weeks to read a 300 page book
>spend more time adding books to my amazon cart than I do reading
>>7909068
Au
Au
Au
This guy is more /pseudointellectual/ than me.
>>7915946
>get an MSc in pure mathematics
Somebody of average or below average intelligence isn't capable of that, you're projecting your own abilities onto the general populace.
