One aspect of what I'm getting at (though not a key one) is to turn that particular kind of insult around. To the extent there is wisdom in a crowd, the crowd's judgment of intellectualism is a valid variable to consider.
Yeah that's the strange attractor here. I think the crowd can naturally manifest almost all behaviors we associate with regular institutions if you squint a bit and generalize definitions appropriately. It can be more than just mad or wise. It can intellectualize be scholarly etc
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Or to turn the tables on institutions, though I love 'em, I think of them as fundamentally dead patterns of stable, ahistorical, procedural intelligence. Bureaucratware. It is the true "pure" institutionalists who are the real pseudo-intellectuals
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To the extent individual humans achieve anything of value within an institution, it's because they've managed to preserve some of the wild energy that animates them outside of institutions (either in crowd or solitary loci) and resist the full domestication into bureacrat-bots
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