It’s the arrogance of it that pisses me off. There’s millennia of writing by hundreds of people smarter than anyone currently alive. They did us all a favor and recorded their ideas for us to study. They were followed by people who explained those ideas to make them even easier for us to understand.
And then there’s people like this, who ignore what others had to say, thinking they’re the first person to have some of these thoughts. They ignore the rest of human knowledge due to their own arrogance. They have such high opinions of themselves, they believe in whatever bullshit they can concoct. It’s pure ego. It’s “I’m too cool for school and I know this because I’m smarter than all my teachers. I’m street smart, too (unlike those nerds who get all their ‘knowledge’ from books).”
I completely disagree with “hundreds of people smarter than anyone currently alive”. There are absolutely people out there who are as smart or likely smarter than the recorded ‘great thinkers’ of history. Average human intelligence likely hasn’t demonstrably changed in over 200,000 years.
What is true is that we live in an unprecedented time of access to information, and access to the ideas and histories of those writers and elucidators of those writers, which means there is little to no excuse to not understand the epistemology of these concepts, something that only the most privileged writers would have had access to in the past (outside of, of course having to pay for access to modern scholarship on topics, which is a bane to any kind of academic progress).
As you said though, ultimately for people like Grimes, ‘deep thinking’ is little more than an ego trip, not an actual exploration of ideology and conceptions and how they may affect your life. It is little more than a word salad.
It’s the arrogance of it that pisses me off. There’s millennia of writing by hundreds of people smarter than anyone currently alive. They did us all a favor and recorded their ideas for us to study. They were followed by people who explained those ideas to make them even easier for us to understand.
And then there’s people like this, who ignore what others had to say, thinking they’re the first person to have some of these thoughts. They ignore the rest of human knowledge due to their own arrogance. They have such high opinions of themselves, they believe in whatever bullshit they can concoct. It’s pure ego. It’s “I’m too cool for school and I know this because I’m smarter than all my teachers. I’m street smart, too (unlike those nerds who get all their ‘knowledge’ from books).”
I completely disagree with “hundreds of people smarter than anyone currently alive”. There are absolutely people out there who are as smart or likely smarter than the recorded ‘great thinkers’ of history. Average human intelligence likely hasn’t demonstrably changed in over 200,000 years.
What is true is that we live in an unprecedented time of access to information, and access to the ideas and histories of those writers and elucidators of those writers, which means there is little to no excuse to not understand the epistemology of these concepts, something that only the most privileged writers would have had access to in the past (outside of, of course having to pay for access to modern scholarship on topics, which is a bane to any kind of academic progress).
As you said though, ultimately for people like Grimes, ‘deep thinking’ is little more than an ego trip, not an actual exploration of ideology and conceptions and how they may affect your life. It is little more than a word salad.
my wigga I thought of all those ideas without ever opening a philosophy book