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- Jan 16, 2017
Anyone can have a bright idea. That's the easy bit of being an intellectual. The hard bit is placing your idea in context and testing it. That involves making sure someone else hasn't already had that idea, seeing how it stands up to competing ideas, assuming the point of view of alternative ways of thinking and attacking your own idea from those perspectives. All of that requires a lot of reading and research. Then you have to write all that shit down, proving that you have done all that work, in such a way that other people can follow it. Then you have to defend it against other, equally smart people, for real. Then there's a good chance that your idea doesn't stand up to that scrutiny and you have to start from scratch all over again after months of work.
Those post-revelation tasks are boring and frustrating. It feels like busywork that prevents you from having more bright ideas. But that's how thinking for a living is. Like any job, it's about 2% core creativity and 98% bureaucratic bullshit. Philosophers write massive, long books that have the same ratio - 2% radical ideas and 98% showing their working.
Rudyard thinks he's too smart and important to do that 98%. Even the slapdash editing of his videos is symptomatic of that. Learning to edit properly is too much like hard work, just like reading other thinkers' work. It just gets in the way of the next 3deep5me DMT-fuelled insight.
Rudyard is a pretty smart guy but he's lazy, and I think a little insecure. Not only does he not see the value in showing his working, I think he's secretly scared that actually learning about great thinkers will reveal that they're smarter and deeper than he is, a really scary prospect for someone whose entire self-worth is predicated on being the cleverest guy in the world. He's a homeschooled sperg who never learned proper academic technique, and that's why he sucks at debating because he's up against people who are used to defending their ideas. A midwit who has the right academic discipline will always wipe the floor with a sloppy genius. And Rudyard isn't a genius.
Those post-revelation tasks are boring and frustrating. It feels like busywork that prevents you from having more bright ideas. But that's how thinking for a living is. Like any job, it's about 2% core creativity and 98% bureaucratic bullshit. Philosophers write massive, long books that have the same ratio - 2% radical ideas and 98% showing their working.
Rudyard thinks he's too smart and important to do that 98%. Even the slapdash editing of his videos is symptomatic of that. Learning to edit properly is too much like hard work, just like reading other thinkers' work. It just gets in the way of the next 3deep5me DMT-fuelled insight.
Rudyard is a pretty smart guy but he's lazy, and I think a little insecure. Not only does he not see the value in showing his working, I think he's secretly scared that actually learning about great thinkers will reveal that they're smarter and deeper than he is, a really scary prospect for someone whose entire self-worth is predicated on being the cleverest guy in the world. He's a homeschooled sperg who never learned proper academic technique, and that's why he sucks at debating because he's up against people who are used to defending their ideas. A midwit who has the right academic discipline will always wipe the floor with a sloppy genius. And Rudyard isn't a genius.
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