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Absolutely. His brand of intellectualism is a blend of self-pity and "intellectual" condescension wrapped in a litany of the same grievances and arguments again
by robmccoll 12y ago
Absolutely. His brand of intellectualism is a blend of self-pity and "intellectual" condescension wrapped in a litany of the same grievances and arguments against the modern culture that technology hath wrought. Where is the originality? Where is the real emotion? If you are so perturbed, write something truly moving and relatable on a human level.
- williamcotton 12y agoHis brand of intellectualism is a blend of self-pity and "intellectual" condescension wrapped in a litany of the same grievances and arguments against the modern culture that technology hath wrought. Can you make some citations? I frankly don't see see any self-pity. Why are you putting "intellectual" in quotes? Because he's talking about the humanities? Personally, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel because of what I see related to the future of decentralized monetization of digital media, so I can see how we can rebuild industry around intellectual property. Still, he makes a lot of great points about posthumanist tendencies. We in this industry, an industry that is shaping the world with very little in the way of a conversation, are incredibly obsessed with quantifying things and we seem to think that "improving what we can measure" and economics are going to be the only things we need to think about. I mean, come on, your first response was about how a machine generated essay would be better than his well argued piece! Unbelievable levels of irony! Fantastic! Haha! Where is YOUR originality and emotion? Somehow a single snarky paragraph is enough? A quantum of downvote is enough? Open YOUR mind!