You perfectly summed up what I have been feeling about quite a few people ever since I first met them. Very typically they are the "oh no I do not own a televi

You perfectly summed up what I have been feeling about quite a few people ever since I first met them. Very typically they are the "oh no I do not own a television set" type because allegedly 100% ALL of TV is just pure nonsense and not a single good program has EVER been shown on TV, according to them. And they always make it a very grave point in ever conversation that they read books and a certain book said this-and-that. As if the fact they read a printed book alone really sets them apart from the rest of the population and this kind of information could have never been shared on TV or a good website. Yet they fail to apply anything they read in an actual conversation where they are actually responding to the other person and adapting things to the given context of the conversation and not just dropping names and empty, allegedly-sophisticated phrases. And then they always make it another grave point to tell everyone how much they value and require intelligent conversation and how they see themselves as educated and well-read and they make sure to drop the right names and point to that fact as often as possible. I think that is why those self-proclaimed "intelligence salons" are so horrible, specifically because they attract this kind of people.