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dude i literally don't care if people think i'm smart, or even if i actually am smart, since i never claimed to be smart but only in possession of what i (and past civil society) consider to be basic literacy... i'm just remarking about how the average person today is so far below that baseline that it warrants at least acknowledging, but if you can't acknowledge that simple fact because it sounds too le pretentious then aren't you being intellectually dishonest at best and just plain ignorant at worst? i only mention that i've read xyz because i thought maybe you'd see my perspective if you knew what kind of stuff i read and compared that to people today who can't even watch a video if it exceeds 12 minutes in length much less read a whole book. and if they can read books it's usually within the bounds of some personalized hobbyism where they read a bunch of nonsense with no connection to anything. then, as a final subdivision, there are people who do read some consequential works but seem to gain nothing from it, these are usually academic types in my experience. but compared to the average person, these people are fucking nobel prize winners, chess grandmasters etc. but my whole point is that there are societal and/or demographic implications to this where intelligent people (maybe like OP) just end up maligned because everyone is too oversocialized and hiveminded to acknowledge intelligence much less respect it for what it is. they hate critically aware individuals. they hate truthful pessimism. and they want everyone to be as retarded as them, nobody can be smarter, nobody can be exceptional or talented etc. it all has to do with an increasingly collectivist mindset borne of social media induced preconceptions and capitalist social dogmas. what's worse, me claiming to have read some books (that i know for a fucking fact most people haven't even heard of), or some faggot claiming to be an authority on a topic because he has a fucking college degree?
