In a more straightforward sense, a pseudo intellectual might be someone trying to be a midern-model intellectual and failing.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
I doubt any of us are doing that, so either way I’m not enthusiastic about the label “pseudo-intellectual”.
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Maybe I’m taking this too seriously (and maybe even thinking like a modern person here). But there’s a scent of nihilism in “pseudo”
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The ambiguity between seriousness and play of thinkers/writers like ourselves is characteristic of metamodernism in
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Replying to @Meaningness @ctbeiser and
I think we can celebrate our role in breaking the path to a positive new cultural mode—not a failing imitation of modern intellectualism
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I’ll take “ambiguity between serious and playful.” Anything to counteract the ponderousness of “intellectual” :)
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Replying to @KevinSimler @Meaningness and
David's been in the meaning mines with his pick and head-lamp. The banana has been dancing on the rings of saturn.
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Post-X is nihilistic. Pseudo-X is defeatist. Meta-X is reconstructionist. Maybe its time to just move on to Y though?
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That’s a good point… got a candidate?
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What would meta-rationality be if it wasn't meta? What would rationality be if it didn't exclude the parts of reality hard to reason about?
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Perhaps “fluid cognition” is a better name for the thing itself, and “metarationality” is useful in explaining its development & history
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