Anyone who is a "second-hand dealer in ideas" & gets some remuneration for it is an “intellectual.” This renders "pseudo-intellectual" a vacuous pejorative, a term for an intellectual you don't like.
The only people to merit the designation are those who use it against others.
Though I applaud her belittling of identitarians' "identity" notion, calling it a form of "narcissism"? Nope.
It's a mass man phenomena hiding behind the language of individual identity. In upgrading commonality to "identity," identitarians submerge themselves into tribes.
Fun first contact short story where the being in a flying saucer requires food; droll ending; “explains” several common features of UFO lore.
Joe Haldeman, “All The Universe in a Mason Jar,” Cosmos (Sept. 1977). See Infinite Dreams (1978).
#ufos#sciencefiction#FirstContact
Ben Burgis's goofy anti-Elon piece in Jacobin.
I can say with a straight face that Ben Burgis doesn't understand how capitalism works, or the role of entrepreneurs & managers therein. "Hard work" — what piffle!
The Dumb Guy argument against Elon.
Which is mostly what I see.
Which is not to say that @elonmusk doesn't work hard. But even if he just did all his work in the few minutes between a never-ending stream of tokes and blow jobs, it wouldn't really matter. It's not how hard the work, but how crucial the work is for bringing products to market.
@pyramuscrypto@elonmusk Burn crosses on your own property (with a burn permit?) all you want. But it is illegal to burn stuff on public property outside of a barbecue pit.
I think it funny that "hate crime" aspect was committed by an Asian-American soy-boy trying to "protest" or... it's incoherent. Heh
Altogether too many E. R. Eddison paperbacks from Ballantine’s early runs. I must have an extra copy of A Fish in Memison, too.
But how to sell? Does a friend want a gift?
This sounds great until you remember that there are such things as deficits, and that one can look at where tax revenue comes from, the amount, and the programs spent upon.
Debt covers deficit spending. That portion of federal outlay is covered by funny money. No more.