Intellect is defined as the capacity to learn. yet what we see most in our daily lives is the hedonism to our own ego’s.
When talking to another person our first reaction is to prove our intellectual superiority. Daily conversations are driven by random political, economic and scientific talk about which the spokesmen have little or no clue about. Their depth of knowledge on the issue can only be measured by the height of the Marinas Trench. See there we go again. Exhibitionism to the extent where its deplorable. The rules of society horde the ones with similar kind of preset notions and ideas together and hence increase the ignorance of each of these pools.
The only way in which both parties in a pseudo intellectual conversation can find closure is if they are equal and opposite in their ignorance of the subject matter Or if they have not found any common ground on which both have equally small bits of information. In the first case all is well each takes the other to be a ‘worthy adversary and the 2 might further their social acquaintence with further displays of pseudo intellectual conversations. In the other case they may both go their separate ways and have more pseudo intellectual conversation with other people on how the first conversant was completely ignorant on the subject.
But more likely than the above is that the 2 people in question will arrive at a point where 1 person will shiningly display their ignorance and convince the person in front of them that they are ignoramus. This serves nothing at all but to shatter ego’s and self confidence of people. And to boost the ego temporarily of those who see the battle as won. But a ego built on such ruins is but a building with a weak foundation.
enough blabber for now. I’d better get back to work
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