How to tell if someone is a midwit?

[AMHOLIO]

Followed by "how do I know I am a midwit?" I know I'm retarded, I post on KF and in the Q&A section.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

But is being a 'tard better than being a midwitted tardwrangler?

 

[analrapist]

The term "midwit" was something Vox Day coined and slipped into common vocabulary like "sigma male". Vox's usual correlate with "midwit" was "gamma male". You can search for his Substack blog "Sigma Game" to read more about gamma tells. The worst midwits are midwits because of their gamma tendencies. If they're sensible enough to target either delta or bravo (depending on their actual intellect), they can stop being such a retarded midwit and start acting like a real human bean.

 

[eDove]

It's not a concrete tell, but they're likely to only listen to one genre of music, excluding subgenres. There are people out there whose musical taste is entirely dependent on the top 40 on radio too. This is a pretty good indication that they're a midwit.

 

[AMHOLIO]

The worst midwits are midwits because of their gamma tendencies. If they're sensible enough to target either delta or bravo (depending on their actual intellect), they can stop being such a retarded midwit and start acting like a real human bean.

This is such jargon my brain crapped out.

 

[analrapist]

Yeah, I'm talking about specific ideas Vox Day talks about. This was the first real publication of the idea: http://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2011/03/socio-sexual-hierarchy.html He now writes a blog about the topic. https://sigmagame.substack.com/ He made some videos and whatnot too. I supposed familiarity with them. Figured the best way to avoid a problem state Vox Day is known for characterizing is to use other techniques Vox Day is known for characterizing as helping them. But yeah, comes off as jargon without familiarity.

 

[draggs]

How to tell if someone is a midwit

1. Are they Vox Day?

2. Do they disagree with you about anything?

If either question is answered affirmatively, midwit confirmerino'd

 

[Meat Target]

I think of a midwit as someone who, while not necessarily stupid, overestimates how smart they are, is obnoxious about it, and is resistant to admitting they're wrong or changing their mind.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I think of a midwit as someone who, while not necessarily stupid, overestimates how smart they are, is obnoxious about it, and is resistant to admitting they're wrong or changing their mind.

There's also a strong element of always, always following conventional wisdom or the least controversial stance on every issue. Midwits are modern Wikipedia personified.

 

[draggs]

There's also a strong element of always, always following conventional wisdom or the least controversial stance on every issue. Midwits are modern Wikipedia personified.

I disagree, the strong element is usually following a stance presented as outside and above the conventional and the controversial positions. You find the largest concentration of midwits in the "normies (who I know nothing about, my view of them is a caricature I got off the internet and added the finishing touches to in my own mind. Why yes I do consoom and indulge in large amounts of fantasy worldbuilding and deep lore thunking, how did you know?) are ignorant niggercattle, I on the other hand have it all figured out . Everyone who disagrees with me is an ignorant niggercattle not-necessarily-but-probably-normie too " crowd

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

They can express an opinion, but cannot elaborate on it.
Debating is a favorite past time (pass time? Idk)
I like to debate on stuff with friends, and it becomes extremely obvious once you ask them to explain what brought them to a conclusion.
Most people just watch the news or more likely a YouTube video on a subject, and see themselves as experts but ask them any specific questions on the subject and it falls apart.

Spoiler: An example

So I had this friend that was super into conspiracy theories, and I'm talking about some really crazy shit.
I could tell he was used to people just listening to his crap and just going "yeah yeah, that's sooo interesting" because as soon as I asked him for specifics, his arguments started to fall apart.
I loved that guy (no homo) but unfortunately had to move away.

 

[giga sapling]

They are smart but don't think outside the box, they are never trail blazers. Perfect middle-managers, but never entrepreneurs or CEOs. They are the film critics, with a college degree in film and a thousand reviews on letterbox, but will never pick-up a camera and attempted a short-film, or an idea for one. They were first to put on the mask, first in line for the vaccine, first to report a rulebreaker or an infraction, first in line at the midnight release for that Marvel movie/Gamestop video game. They were the teacher's pet and a tattletaler in grade school.

Midwits have no self-reflecting. As soon as they learned about science, atheism, history, authority, and reddit, they discovered superior intelligence and are above you. They are all functioning Cluster B personalities. Every totally deprived polyamormous deviant and smug dreamworks-face smirking tranny is a midwit, they think they found the cheat code to life.

Plato once said the ideal citizen is a scholar AND an athlete. Midwits are textbook scholars but never athletes. (There are athletic non-scholar midwits as well but they are rare, Andrew Tate is a good example)

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Some common signs of midwits along with appropriate responses.

1. I'm atheist because I don't believe in imaginary friends

2. If God is real why do kids die of cancer?

3. You can comment how much X sportsball athlete sucks, but you can't do what he does!

4. But how does that affect your life?

5. Why do you care about what other people do?

6. Source? Cite your sources.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

I thought we already figured this out:
"How would you feel now, if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning?"

 

[AMHOLIO]

I thought we already figured this out:
"How would you feel now, if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning?"

Wouldn't that be a straight dimwit though?

 

[Marc]

how to tell if someone is a midwit

My experience has been that you never have to request a midwit to either identify as or relegate themselves to being one: Intellectual vanity is something they're compelled to broadcast like the distress signal that it is, under the belief that their rightful place above others in the pecking order must be asserted immediately. And they convey these sentiments along what they perceive to be the path of least resistance:

In much the same way as a dimwit will relate to topics, events, or concepts in a small-minded and trifling manner when summarizing or otherwise engaging with them, a midwit will give themselves away by performing this same task with excessive wordiness (though they're liable to go out of their way to refer to it as verbosity, prolixity, or sesquipedalianism). I highlight this tell because it begs the question which speaks to the fundamental neurosis: "Why would a self-described intelligent person, under pretense and in the course of striving to communicate effectively, be using language that is unlikely to be understood?."

One of the 20th century's greatest mistakes was to regard The Peter Principle as a work of satirical fiction and facetiousness. It is bleak fact.

Note: There are infinitely diverse breeds of midwits, constrained only to the paths of escapism perceived to be most accessible. One midwit's wordiness fostered through unfettered access to a thesaurus is another midwit's jargon appropriated from consuming (and misunderstanding) "esoteric" literature promising shortcuts in thinking.

"how do I know I am a midwit?"

If you failed to recognize yourself in the preceding explanation.

 

[Tablet County]

The term "midwit" was something Vox Day coined and slipped into common vocabulary like "sigma male". Vox's usual correlate with "midwit" was "gamma male". You can search for his Substack blog "Sigma Game" to read more about gamma tells. The worst midwits are midwits because of their gamma tendencies. If they're sensible enough to target either delta or bravo (depending on their actual intellect), they can stop being such a retarded midwit and start acting like a real human bean.

@AMHOLIO If they say shit like this.

 

[dick brain]

They believe the police protect them.

 

[analrapist]

@AMHOLIO If they say shit like this.

If you wonder something about Mario, the obvious person to ask is Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario. If you don't understand that coined words work the same way, you're not gonna make it.

 

[Tablet County]

If you wonder something about Mario, the obvious person to ask is Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario. If you don't understand that coined words work the same way, you're not gonna make it.

Counterpoint:

"Why would a self-described intelligent person, under pretense and in the course of striving to communicate effectively, be using language that is unlikely to be understood?."