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Curtis McHaleWhen you Don’t Like Books <a href="https://youtu.be/jlqrdaWlWfM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/jlqrdaWlWfM</a>It’s rare that I don’t finish a book, but there have been a few. Most recently I put down The Black Swan because I felt it was a poorly written self agrandizing work written so that Taleb could show how smart he was while making up new names for established principles.Even when I do finish a book, I don’t lik <a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/08/when-you-dont-like-books/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/08/when-you-dont-like-books/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3Threads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#performance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a>

Joey van der PoelWith the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuropeanParlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanParlement</a> nearby, lets remember this quote by Isaac Asimov:“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EP24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EP24</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EP2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EP2024</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a>

SLCW💥<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rightwing</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/lunatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lunatic</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/StewPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StewPeters</a> believes that a legitimate, viable solution to the complex problems at our southern <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#border</a> is to line the border with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/soldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldiers</a>, and have them indiscriminately gun down anyone who attempts to cross into America (a maximum B misdemeanor civil offense). This is what passes for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policy</a> on the right. Just suspend the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> and ignore established <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/precedent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#precedent</a> related to use of force. 🤦‍♂️<a href="https://www.alternet.org/influencer-shooting-aid-workers-2666122215" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.alternet.org/influencer-shooting-aid-workers-2666122215</a>

Larry RusswurmIt seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to be no balancing idea that dystopias are also out of reach. Indeed, they seem quite obtainable if you are to listen to a lot science fiction.Personally, I think utopias and dystopias are both out of the question for our society in any near future. The first is too perfect and the latter is too imperfect. What isn’t out of the question is improving and failing societies. Again I think people tend to latch onto the failing societies as the way things are going and dismiss improving societies as impossible fluff.I think that this is largely the triumph of cynicism over intellectualism. This is where the cynics are considered realistic and thus more important than the intellectuals.I think that the truth of the matter is that cynicism is easier. It is easier to point out problems than to actually fix them. The intellectual not only thinks of the problem, they provide a possible fix to the problem as well and that is harder. This is why I believe intellectuals deserve praise over cynics. As such I prefer the more optimistic entries in science fiction.But probably the main reason that I would wish to see dystopian science fiction wiped out as much as possible is because politicians keep trying to use the worst of dystopian SF as something to aspire to. We don’t want big brother and we don’t want the handmaid’s tale. But we are at the risk of getting both at the same time! Some politicians do want this, and are too stupid to think of how to run such a society. So they are inspired by dystopian SF. Quit providing a blueprint!!!!!If the politicians are successful, then the cynics can say their SF foresaw the future accurately. Which gives them even more street cred. This is why we must say intellectualism over cynicism, improving societies over failing societies and even utopias over dystopias!<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/cynicism/" target="_blank">#cynicism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/cynicismrealism/" target="_blank">#cynicismRealism_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/dont-provide-a-blueprint-to-dystopia/" target="_blank">#DonTProvideABlueprintToDystopia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/dystopias/" target="_blank">#dystopias</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/failing-society/" target="_blank">#failingSociety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/fixing-problems/" target="_blank">#fixingProblems</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/getting-big-brother-and-the-handmaids-tale-at-the-same-time/" target="_blank">#gettingBigBrotherAndTheHandmaidSTaleAtTheSameTime_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/i-want-dystopian-sf-wiped-out/" target="_blank">#IWantDystopianSFWipedOut</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/impossible-fluff/" target="_blank">#impossibleFluff_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/improving-society/" target="_blank">#improvingSociety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/intellectualism/" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/modern-science-fiction/" target="_blank">#modernScienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/pointing-out-problems/" target="_blank">#pointingOutProblems</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/too-imperfect/" target="_blank">#tooImperfect</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/too-perfect/" target="_blank">#tooPerfect</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/utopias/" target="_blank">#utopias</a><a href="https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/</a>

SLCW💥This is the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/delusional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#delusional</a> nonsense that passes for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> on the right. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/insurrectionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurrectionists</a> were tried by juries of their peers based on the well-established trial rules. After being found <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#guilty</a>, they were sentenced by impartial judges, many who were appointed by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>. And their sentences were significantly lower than the guidelines called for. People like <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Palin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palin</a> don't care about the facts. They just want to be right, and they're happy to lie about it. <a href="https://radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/</a>

Adamas NemesisMeritocracy's very structure selects for the bureaucratic mentality; might embracing the whims of chance, by lot or by blood, be a better way?Read more at my <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blog</a>: <a href="https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/11/26/accident-of-birth-a-feature-not-a-bug/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/11/26/accident-of-birth-a-feature-not-a-bug/</a>This post's featured image is Edmund Blair Leighton's "A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne".<a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aristocracy</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/nobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nobility</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bureaucracy</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freespeech</a>

Martin Nutty<a href="https://mastodon.social/@aallan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aallan</a> Thank you for this glorious piece of cultural history. One of the many reasons I’ve been enjoying this community so much is the depth of intellectual capital. In many parts of the western world, the world intellectual has become a slur. In this corner of the social media world I feel otherwise<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/expertise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#expertise</a>

Thomas G. M. BlankFinally, after 6+ months, here's my <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> as well. I am a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historian</a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/GraecoRomanCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GraecoRomanCulture</a> at Mainz university, Germany. My research is focused on structures of communication and the formation of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/identities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#identities</a> through <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> (<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/rhetoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhetoric</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a>) and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a>. Further interests: <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/historiography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historiography</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anti</a>-monarchic discourse, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ClassicalReceptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassicalReceptions</a>.Thrilled to be part of this <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/polis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#polis</a>.<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/rhetodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhetodons</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/antiquidons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/rhetodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rhetodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noxp</a>

ForcedInductionRetardSometimes it feels like it's a Tenshi-eat-corndog world... <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/profound" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#profound</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/deep_thought" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deep_thought</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/blender" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blender</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/intellectualism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/wow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wow</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/yum_package_manager" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yum_package_manager</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pl.pube.tk/tag/digit3iq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digit3iq</a>

TeddIntellectually humble people tend to possess more knowledge, study finds <blockquote>People who are intellectually humble tend to score better on a test of general knowledge, according to new research published in The Journal of Positive Psychology. The new findings also provide some insights into the particular traits that could explain the link between intellectual humility and knowledge acquisition. </blockquote> <a href="https://www.psypost.org/2019/03/intellectually-humble-people-tend-to-possess-more-knowledge-study-finds-53409" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.psypost.org/2019/03/intellectually-humble-people-tend-to-possess-more-knowledge-study-finds-53409</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.tilde.zone/tag/intellectualism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.tilde.zone/tag/iq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iq</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.tilde.zone/tag/psychology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a>

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