I understand desperately wanting other people to think you are smart, obviously. That's often born of a simple insecurity. I don't understand wanting people to hate you at the same time. This suggests a very twisted psychology to me but it seems to be quite common.
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I've never met these people in real life so I think they're probably much more humble & pleasant in real life. This behaviour must serve some kind of need and is engaged in online where you can be who you want to be and no-one knows who you really are?
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Since you mentioned abusiveness, I'm now wondering who would be a set of examples, maybe 3-4 people or so, whom you classify as abusive and fake intellectual. Who are you thinking of?
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I don't remember their names! I mute them as soon as they start being abusive. This is the one today tho @ realtomha
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You English folk invented the perfect word for them. Can't recall it perfectly, rhymed with spankers.
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Taboo. It's not intellectualism, they're appealing to the local god ("reason") to defend their situation, which is that the world is moving so fast and in such complicated ways they are bewildered. People are clinging to life rafts of belief in what they feel is a sea of chaos.
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There's the problem. They shouldn't be using life-rafts. They should be using surf-boards. :D
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These days, command of academic jargon is a status symbol. The pseuds are gunning the engines of stolen Porsches.
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god it's like the center of the bullseye, in terms of the way evolution has wired our reward centers of the brain. you get to be an asshole with absolutely no guilt because you're feigning moral superiority, which the ego loves.
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The condescending sanctimonious prig (CSP) is a well-known personality type endemic to academe.
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Absolutely brutal subtweet Helen. I am undone.

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I don't think it's very interesting psychologically. It's just general assholishness, rudeness+arrogance.
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Being an asshole + dunning-Kruger effect
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Yes. Plus, often what ppl say, esp on Twitter, is really not directed at the person they are talking to but at a wider audience.
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Remember that all abuse is about power. Every kind.
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I feel pseudo intellectuals are weaponized devotees to a dogma inculcated by their cowardly ideological minders. They are mindless drones incapable of true debate.
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I always give the same answer: Give me the specific example. make the movie, show me the character. I'll say, "Oh, that rude guy is trying--& failing-- to be the provocative Christopher Hitchens."
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IME, they tend to be like the puppies in Animal Farm. They were brainwashed at a young age and convinced being extra-hostile made them superior to others.
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