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I am not going to correct this statement, just please ask you not to use the word "intellectual-yet-idiot" to describe other people ever again. IYI is a great a
by Reuzel 5y ago
I am not going to correct this statement, just please ask you not to use the word "intellectual-yet-idiot" to describe other people ever again. IYI is a great and new concept, and can be enlightening when correctly applied. Let us (pseudo)intellectuals cherish that value.
EDIT: https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/09/intellectual-yet-idiot/ https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/09/intellectual-yet-idiot/ to add something interesting for others.
- 271828182846 5y agoafter reading that article it seems to me that "idiot-yet-intellectual" might be fitting JVN.
- Reuzel 5y agoYeah, after you reading that article, I totally agree. It might also be fitting to describe NN Taleb. The only one it does not fit, I think, would be Edward Snowden, the last cultural bastion of free speech and human rights protection.