Go ahead and post your intellectually superior topics.
Right, real intellectuals just post memes mocking people who fluently use basic habits of reason and conversation.
Why, the topic of our intellectual superiority of course!
Did they just like, throw a bunch of random philosophy bullshit onto a meme? Feels like this was generated by an AI or something lol.
Feels like this was generated by an AI
Like the meme says: thats what an AI would say. Lol
It’s like the normie maths meme where soyjak enjoys the monty hall problem and the infinite room hotel but hasn’t heard of the boring old theorems people learn in college
Yeah these fuckin nerds are using logic and thought to understand the world.
“Emotions are not facts”
How dare they fixate on topics I think are remedial.
Almost like they are stepping stones.
Is this a picture of Aunty Donna?
Can’t be, it doesn’t have Adrian in it
Haven’t you done well?
“Think different.”
“YES! WE ALL THINK DIFFERENT!”In unison, of course, like Life Of Brian.
Bonus points for bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.“I don’t…”
Incredibly accurate. It’s nuts how they all could be one person.
Report for: i am in the picture and i dont like it
Sounds like you don’t like thought so you make fun of those that at least try.
This sounds like the epidemy of weaponized ignorance.
epidemy of weaponized ignorance.
Epitome.
Does it still count as weaponized ignorance if the gun goes off in your own face?
Does it still count as weaponized ignorance if the gun goes off in your own face?
Yes. That just makes it funny weaponized ignorance.
Thanks, I was definitely drunk last night. The meme is still bad though.
Epitome
That’s the joke, silly
OP, please add “epidemy of weaponized ignorance” to the meme!
Do we do flairs here yet? 😂
For me the meme is that most of these are the very tip of the philosophy and thinking iceberg. And that’s fine. What’s not fine is taking those basic concepts and trying to use them as defeaters for everything. I think this is what it’s poking fun at.
Exactly. It’s taking the piss out off wannabe “deep thinkers” who’ve speed ran philosophy 101 videos on Youtube. Being well read isn’t the joke. The joke is the neckbeards who have to smugly let everyone know that they read a Wikipedia article.
Ironically, this stereotype probably fits most of the ones who are kicking off. Hell, it’s essentially a profile of me. 10 years ago I was that guy saying “hey have you heard about iambic pentameter?”. That’s why I laughed so hard lmao
Being that kind of person isn’t bad or a negative though, and framing being confident in having knowledge as a negative is what drives tyranny, discourages education and critical thinking, enables propaganda to be so effective, and destroys society.
That guy smugly bragging about reading a Wiki article could have legitimately never crossed it before and was genuinely excited in it for the sake of it, and here you are destroying legitimate intellectual curiosity just because society told you that was a no-no. Who’s really more shameful?
You’re taking this way too personally lol
Being intelligent isn’t the joke. It’s putting on the facade of being well read that so many nerdy 20 somethings do.
Society isnt saying don’t be smart. It’s saying be less of a sweaty douchebag. You can be nerdy and fun to be around. It’s not mutually exclusive.
If my comment destroys your intellectual curiosity, then you never had any.
But it is about being intelligent, because people who use those terms are using them in earnest, you just accuse them of trying to sound smart because you want to silence them and make them feel bad for challenging or correcting you, and it works.
People like you destroy intellectual curiosity by doing that all the time, and not just to me. I’ve had to fight to regain what little I was able to, because of people like you. Anti-intellectualism is NOT okay. It is very much its own kind of bigotry, and extremely dangerous.
Society absolutely does tell people not to be smart and it does so largely through people like you. The only way nerdy people are fun to be around to you is when they don’t show it, or only enough to benefit you and certainly never to expose the fact that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
And I’m tired of it. I’m tired of having to walk on eggshells around people like you, shut the fuck up and deal with it when you’re told with evidence you’re wrong.
It’s own form of bigotry haha! My sides… Yep, that’s right. You’re the most oppressed. Right up there with gamers and Christians.
Okay mate, I’m gonna leave you be before you burst a blood vessel.
There’s nothing wrong with being smart. It’s the smugness that is annoying and that’s what this whole thing is about.
If you aren’t one of those people than that’s great and you shouldn’t be bullied.
The fact that the smugness, i.e., the confidence smart people display is annoying IS fundamentally thr problem. Smart people are allowed to be confident, to be smug, to be arrogant like everybody else, and that doesn’t just go away because it makes stupid smug people feel bad about themselves or inferior.
And ALL intelligent people are falsely framed in this light, because the truth is that other people feeling inferior or jealous of them is all this is fundamentally about, and that is wrong.
Stop telling intelligent people they can’t have positive self-esteem. I will NOT walk on eggshells around you anymore. I will not change who and what I am to spare your feelings. No intelligent person should have to.
You’re just projecting onto an image that has two people you’re “supposed to dislike” and a bunch of words
Wait, im 20 something?
This post would have gotten more mileage on Reddit.
Not much that wouldn’t mate.
In the right communities, yeah, but lemmy is highly fragmented
I think the Reddit crowd would have mostly had the ability to laugh at itself on this one.
Most of the responses on here are acting pretty triggered.
You’re absolutely right. It couldn’t possibly have a bad message or promote anti-intellectualism or anything, it is 100% the fault of people who value philosophy and poetry and meaningful thought. How dare they not walk on eggshells around the proudly ignorant
It is anti intellectual. Idk why it has so many upvotes
I mean, a lot of these things are good things to consider/know about. For example, you do always have to consider that correlation is not necessarily causation. They’re not really considering the most deep of philosophy, but thinking is generally better than not thinking.
I bet OP thinks that Ben Shapiro qualifies as “thinker”
Can we not do the “I bet so and so, thinks so and so?”. It just seems kinda shallow.
That’s basically what this post is
Oh my god, that’s something that gets under my skin so very quickly and it’s sadly so common. It’s such a specifically arrogant kind of strawmanning where you’re telling someone else what they think sometimes even in direct contradiction to what they say. Like “you’re just jealous” or “you just want to ____”. It just reeks of anti-intellectualism and everyone is worse off with every use. We desperately need more people to learn the principles of philosophy, and maybe even more specifically of epistemology.
I guess I missed people rambling on about HYDRAULIC GIRLDICK
Thank god I has this phase at 16.
Thank someone you had the phase at all.
I am 17 and that’s me and it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon.
The trick is to read even more philosophy and become even more insufferable.
I will
At least they “think” in contrast to the majority of working bots and angry Twitter idiots. I’d rather deal with a person who tries to have a concept.
Pretty much, my thoughts too since the alternative is them regurgitating whatever opinion they happen to agree with. It’s impossible to have a meaningful conversation if the other person can’t even turn their brain on past repeating what their preacher/pundit/candidate told them.
And I thought I was a real intellectual in my days… That’s exactly what I pested my teachers and fellow students with. In the '90s, though.
Sounds like you were! School is exactly when a person ought to learn this stuff.
