Wish people would speak plainly. I learned a long time ago, that high-brow vocabulary is a tactic to discourage dissent, or intimidate would-be debaters. All of these fucks have a very simple (or convoluted) point they’re trying to make. Advanced vocabulary does nothing for your point. We get it: you’re smart. Smart people have dumb takes. Smart people have good takes. Transmit them plainly. Stop killing intellectual boners.
This could be an article on The Onion
Thanks!
Wish people would speak plainly. I learned a long time ago, that high-brow vocabulary is a tactic to discourage dissent, or intimidate would-be debaters. All of these fucks have a very simple (or convoluted) point they’re trying to make. Advanced vocabulary does nothing for your point. We get it: you’re smart. Smart people have dumb takes. Smart people have good takes. Transmit them plainly. Stop killing intellectual boners.
Be better. Be simple in your speech.
I want to share this with every philosopher I know.
I thought about this post while scrolling past several Substackers who wrote entire paragraphs that I couldn't understand. 😂
Girl, I feel you! I studied Theology, and the amount of times the discussions devolved to abstract talk was tiring 🫠
The autodiactic polymath esoteric raconteur.
Or, in the common tongue: the self-taught know-it-all who tells weird stories
Lollll
indubitably.