Taxonomy of Pseudo-Intellectualism A neoBuddhist Perspective
A critique of Am I a Pseudo-Intellectual? With bonus content: Taxonomy of Pseudo-Intellectualism What is a pseudo-intellectual, and what makes an intellectual if education or qualifications do not? In this video, I build on two other videos who discuss the topic and ask the question: is there any benefit to identifying pseudo-intellectuals, or is the really something we should be more self-aware about? 0:00 okay so the other day I got a comment0:03 which started off with the following0:04 sentence you’re a s of a pseudo0:07 intellectual Academia living in hyper0:10 reality and after reading the full0:13 comment which went even more purple in0:15 it Pros I couldn’t help but sort of0:17 laugh at the rather poetic irony of0:19 someone employing that verbiage to call0:21 me the pseudo intellectual one but you0:24 know what it caught me thinking I can’t0:26 think to myself am I a pseudo0:28 intellectual because you see I always0:30 presumed that the base requirement of a0:33 pseudo intellectual would be an0:35 ungrounded and unfounded belief that one0:38 was an intellectual in the first place Here we begin not with inquiry but with a catalytic insult, thrown like a Zen master’s stick across the student’s shoulders. This moment—the insult that provokes reflection—is a modern koan. The insultor uses the very mechanisms of pseudo-intellectualism (complex jargon, vague accusation, ideological flair) to accuse another of it. “Hyper reality”? Baudrillard is spinning like a gyroscope in his grave. The speaker then reflects: “…an ungrounded and unfounded belief that one was
