03 Nov 2012, 8:07 pm
Fnord wrote:
An intellectual is merely someone who has found something more interesting than sex. He is like a person in a library who, upon discovering that an attractive person is seated nearby, looks first at what book that other person is reading, rather than what that other person is wearing.
In essence, an intellectual is one who primarily uses his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate, or ask and answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas. Being a genius does not make one an intellectual, nor does an advanced education. Using the reasoning capabilities of one's mind (however great or small they may be) in preference to feelings and emotions is what makes one an intellectual.
To do otherwise is to earn the pejorative label of "Emo".
In essence, an intellectual is one who primarily uses his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate, or ask and answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas. Being a genius does not make one an intellectual, nor does an advanced education. Using the reasoning capabilities of one's mind (however great or small they may be) in preference to feelings and emotions is what makes one an intellectual.
To do otherwise is to earn the pejorative label of "Emo".
I love you fnord.
