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.
The autodiactic polymath esoteric raconteur.
Or, in the common tongue: the self-taught know-it-all who tells weird stories
indubitably.
Lollll
This could be an article on The Onion
Thanks!
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 🫠
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.