When people accuse you of something..."You're arrogant"...it doesn't matter if the word has a nuanced definition. "The people" don't use nuance. Now, if an inte

When people accuse you of something..."You're arrogant"...it doesn't matter if the word has a nuanced definition. "The people" don't use nuance. Now, if an intellectual makes a detailed philippic against you, it might be worth explicating carefully. Even then, probably not...especially if you're trying to sleuth out some deeper compliment buried in an insult. I don't care if he's arrogant, for what it's worth. My problem is that he is a dispenser of humdrum truisms and humdrum falsehoods that mysteriously result in adulation.