This isnt intellectualism.

[regnier]

This is a collection of pseudo-intellectuals giving vent to half-imagined and ill-researched thoughts, picayune problems and misunderstood aporia. I cannot find hide nor hair of anything redeeming whatsoever.

I'd say I'm expecting too much of an online site, but they are thousands and thousands of users, and the forum is divided into many parts. There should be a few, even if only five or six, real critical thinkers. But I can't find any.

Have any of you ever even read any Kant? Kafka? Vonnegut? Coupland, Hempel, Descartes, Bacon? The most I could expect out of any of you solipsistic black-hole egotists is knowledge of Palahniuk. The messiah of the angry. And probably not even that.

I see here realms of justification and self-denial. Angry denouements and the neologisms of the iGeneration. I see here directionless discontent and placeless rage, common sense and common intelligence. I see here the kind of people who think the world will end in their lifetime, and never realize that's a form of conceit.

Don't any of you realize that trying to be different makes you normal?

More than anything, I want someone to prove me wrong. No doubt, there'll be an angry response, if there is a response at all, to this. I know that already, but it's worth it if even one intellectual responds. Never has a board full of posts felt so empty.

This is the end of my diatribe.

Marco?