IMAO Condensed: Intellectuals

Posted by Frank J. on October 27, 2008 at 10:27 am

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23 Responses to “IMAO Condensed: Intellectuals”

1. Gasgwar says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am

   So, when did ‘the thinker’ become a Berkley tree sitter?

2. Basil says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am

   I think I am that I am, therefore I Am. — Barack Obama

3. Gasgwar says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am

   I think I am that I am, therefore I Am. — Barack Obama

   There is speculation that William Ayers was the ghost writer of Dreams of my Father because of nautical references peppered throughout the memoir. This quote may disprove those theories because it smacks of a certain sailor man.

4. Master Shake says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:04 am

   I really hate those “INTELLECUTALS” with their snobebry, and lazienss, and not worikng and stuff!

   [Man, I can't write anything without a red line spell check. You don't know how many times I looked over that trying making sure I didn't accidentally put a letter out of place and I still did it anyway. -Ed.]

5. Mary Sunshine says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am

   I get such a kick out of hearing that we need a smart president, therefore we need to vote for Obama. Obama is only as smart as the teleprompter in front of him. Uh uh uh uh 57 states uh uh inhalator uh. Yeah….he’s a genius alright!

6. MarkoMancuso says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:20 am

   Frank, I’m willying to do spell checks for 50 cents an our. Intertesed?

7. PaleoMedic says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am

   Intellectuals would not appreciate the grand irony of this demotivator.

8. Jimmy says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:41 am

   I liked “INTELLECUTALS” better. Cheater.

   “Some people put a much greater value on appearing smart not appearing stupid over ever doing anything useful.”

   [Be quiet or I'll edit your comments to make it look like you misspelled everything. -Ed.]

9. Jimmy says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 11:50 am

   But I usualllly do misspelll everyting. And it’s a good ting, too. Forgive me, Frank, I’ve got electionitus. The only temporary cure is massive amounts of coffee in the morning followed by the daily onslaught of conservatives in the evening.

10. Herpules says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    I never understood what was so “intellectual looking” about sitting naked on a rock.

11. Basil says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    The rock.

12. cadet says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    that sentence makes my head ache

13. PaleoMedic says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Gee thanks. Now my previous comment is the epitome of dumbness.

14. Son of Bob says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Who is this string aimed at? Surely you’re not insinuating that anyone on the dem side has ever appeared smart?! Barney Frank, no – Chris Dodd, no – Nancy Pelosi, no – Harry Reid, no – Al Gore, no – Waxman, Biden, Obama, no, no, no. Did these people actually spend time trying to look smart? I don’t remember that.

15. Abigail says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Ya know, I don’t have a problem with intellectuals as long as they are also practical. Most “intellectuals” have their heads so far up their respective rear ends that they turn inside out.

    I always liked that statue; too bad liberals have gone and ruined it for me.

16. Freemon Sandlewould says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Even though the words have been twisted I am old school about intellectual. I consider myself an intellectual but what does that mean?

    -1- It means I want to learn Portuguese…but why? Because I want to chase Brazillian women….er well change chase to catch. But as a side effect I understand our inner workings better.
    -2- It means I want to be good with words but also ideas. Big ideas that allow me to understand the world. Then do something.
    -3- I want to take apart my emotions and understand myself and thereby many others better. I want to be a better friend.
    -4- I want to understand the universe and to that end I am beholden to understand cold hard logic, math and physics.

    So next time a person uses the word intellectual look at the intellectual muscles. Are they huge and rippling? Or is it just a girly man using big works and shouting like a wild beast as he poses.

17. Freemon Sandlewould says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    The statue guy is just taking a dump.

    — Freemon the Intellectual.

18. island girl says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Regarding No. 3 above, there are a multitude of reasons why it looks like Bill Ayres ghost wrote B. Hussein Obama’s book Dreams of My Father. Read the article. Click my name.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html

19. island girl says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Someone once explained to me one of the reasons so many New Yorkers still can be seen burying their noses in the NY Slimes – is because they want to APPEAR intellectual. Many of these same people can be seen smearing this country and with a veracity that is pure vindictiveness – hardly the qualities of an intellectual. And by the way I am no intellectual, but I can see countless numbers of people risking their lives to get to this country because it is so great. My half brother is a member of Mensa and he is the biggest baby – constantly having to prove how great he is and how much money he makes and is one miserable, argumentative, cold and dishonest lost soul who did not want his own baby to be born, and I could go on but you get the picture.

20. K says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    We need a new word. “intellectual” doesn’t tell us enough.

    Is a top scientist an intellectual if she expresses no interests beyond carbon atoms? Is the jazz historian intellectual? Or does he just listen to jazz and memorize facts about records and musicians and write anecdotal books about them?

    The scientist would be despised by San Francisco intellectuals for working at EXXON. The Jazz Historian would be idolized for existing; even more so after dying of a heroin overdose at 36.

    Intellectuals are recognizable only by intellectuals in the same way that dogs will never mistake a small pony for big dog.

21. 4 of 7 says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    The statue is called “The Thinker”, not “The Intellectual”.

    The figure has the muscles of a wrestler or gladiator, but is perfectly still.
    Brow knotted, he seems to be pondering some idea more complex and more important than he’s ever faced before; without the vocabulary or experience to even put his thoughts into words.
    I always got the impression that when he finally got his thoughts in order and reached his decision, he would take swift and irrevocable action. Will his judgement be good? Oh, did you know the original is part of a much larger bronze work by Rodin called “The Gates of Hell”? Makes you think, don’t it?

    A statue called, “The Intellectual” would be quite different.
    Cast from Styrofoam, matchstick arms folded across it’s hollow chest, its thin, curled lip and arched brows would pronounce to the world that it had no need to think because it already had all the answers!

    Thinkers can be educated or uneducated, young, old, male, female; but they are Real and they do Real things.
    Intellectuals (at least the self-proclaimed kind) are an affectation of prosperous civilizations.
    Like a dog trained to walk on it’s hind legs, it is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all!
    (nod to Samuel Johnson).

22. Basil says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Intellectual (in-tə-ˈlek-chə-wəl) n: An educated person who knows nothing.

23. Corona says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Basil says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    The rock.

    Perfect. I agree.

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