What goes through the mind of a pseud?

What goes through the mind of a pseud?

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He's right. Hitchens was a great writer.

Aren't you supposed to say no longer in that context? Not a native, it just strikes me as odd

Trick question.

Superiority complex that results in us lacking friends or at least friends that are at a similar intellectual level as we are and therefore our thoughts ferment within our minds without other people being there to tell us that our thoughts and opinions are stupid and shallow and indicative of us lacking any degree of life experience.
If we are confronted with somebody who is more successful in us than our supposed field of expertise we experience a deep and traumatic shock which I have personally gone through and has resulted in my interests changing entirely.

A bullet, hopefully.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

This, all the time

>What goes through the mind of a pseud?
You tell me.

Yes. I don't know if there's an actual rule for it, but no non-retarded native speaker would phrase it like that. You would either use just "he is no more" or "he is no longer amongst us," the commenter seems to have tried to sound eloquent but not realized the difference.
If you're not a native speaker I'm kind of impressed, I don't think I'll ever get to the kind of intuitive knowledge of any second language to notice something that subtle.

Let's figure out what a pseud is first. I think "pseuds" are a product of our modern education system. Our high school education curriculum is so abysmal that a person of average intelligence can breeze through it without ever cracking a book. This gives the aforementioned average person an undeserved confidence in his/her mental abilities. When they get to college they perceive themselves to be part of the intelligentsia and want to be perceived as part of this group to the outside world.(Although they can't admit this to themselves) You might see them carrying around copies of Beyond Good and Evil and other easily recognized "deep" texts. They may or may not read it or they might quit after reading 100 pages. But that won't stop them from voicing their opinion on the text. No, they have read the Wiki article and many, many reviews on Amazon. They are highly opinionated on the topic. Their inability to finish the text fuels the whole "I'm smart but lazy" mentality. And when they eventually switch their major to something useless they pass with Cs. Then they will say to themselves, "All the greatest businessmen are C students". The pseud is in a constant struggle for self-affirmation, constantly undergoes severe mental gymnastics, and has a desire to not only fit in, but wants to be the leader of the group. The underlying problem is our poor education system, these are perfectly average people who's egos are inflated to bizarre proportions due to constant undeserved praise and the lack of challenge in their upbringing. A person should be humbled at an early age by way of challenge. Public education is a joke.

On the opposite spectrum of this are people with high skillsets or intelligence, suffering from impostor syndrome. It's either Dunning–Kruger or impostor syndrome (these are not mutually exclusive). You just can't win.

Get out 18 year old.

Anyone who's been to Oxford will tell you Hitchens just practises a bunch of rhetorical tricks.

>is no more amongs us
This triggered my autism.

I have kids. Our public education system is fine teaching skills. The ability to read, the ability to find for algebra, the ability to read a map.

What it does not, and cannot teach is higher critical thinking. They teach my daughters to read at the level of low YA fiction. Fine. It is MY responsibility to take her home and have her read Bronte and Whitman and Longfellow and Yeats and the Gospel of Matthew and Marcus Aurelius. It is my responsibility that she understands what they mean, and if I cannot ably explain it, to direct her in how to acquire that knowledge. Furthermore it is my responsibility to get her into STEM camps in the summer, and engage in sport and physical exertion to give her strength of mind, body, and spirit.

To assume that public education will educate your child beyond skills and blame them when they do not is lacking introspection on the duty of the parent.

People with weak meta cognition and a lot of charisma are doing serious damage to the world.

they sure are

Then why even bother at public school? Why don't you trim the fat and home school all the way, user?

Not sure which is more cringey, the people the guy is taking a picture of, or the guy who's taking and sending this picture.

Are most people here not pseuds?

>ultra liberal
Americans lmao

Is it really as bad if your pseud phase was confined to your highschool years? It's not like I went into my 20s still acting like I knew shit.

>daughter
>implying women understand anything

Absolutely nothing.

oi m8, so what goes through your mind?

you're right we should call them what they are, cultural marxists

Homeschooling is socially dangerous and I am not competent to teach math and science.

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/redpill

>just practises a bunch of rhetorical tricks
nice b8

>that good pianist only got good by taking piano lessons; what a fucking pseud

>If we are confronted with somebody who is more successful in us than our supposed field of expertise we experience a deep and traumatic shock
It's even worse when they're more experienced in that and a ton of other things, definitely shattered my worldview when that happened

Hm. The person I know who claims to have an 0.001%ile IQ is exactly like that.. "apparently garlic is really good for you" "why?" "..."
I dunno. She's obviously intelligent, but.. 0.001%ile?

whoops, other way round. top 0.001% lel

Hitchens sounds like a very great writer, until you read him over a couple of times critically. His wit doesn't stand close inspection.

>Our public education system is fine teaching skills
Oh, that's fine then. Nevermind that it takes them about 12,000 hours of instruction to achieve those basic 'skills'.

Making this thread

any kind of direct attack on a pupil's "self-esteem" (otherwise known as unwarranted pride) is anathema to modern educational orthodoxy

telling a boy he is stupid and hopeless is, of course, wrong. but there ought to be a distinction made between teaching pupils to despair and teaching them to feel ashamed

>pianist
every time i read this word it makes me think of penis lol

the latest pseud magnet:

There's nothing more pseud than complaining about pseuds.

How can a flow be eloquent?

Nah. It's not uncommon to be a pseud in highschool. You come out of it thinking you're a god because you've never had any humbling experiences yet. It's when you're out of highschool and still a pseud that there's a problem.

I always saw hitchens more as a great person because he was one of the few journalists with integrity. He also had good off the cuff rhetoric. I don't feel he was a stylistically profound author.

Soods as a rule assume that they are always right. They will only very rarely admit to being wrong even when confronted with direct evidence. The style of sood bemoaned by Veeky Forums just happens to share our interest. There's nothing special or unusual about him.

A better question though, would be, "Who cares?"