1/ The main characteristic of “intelligent stupidity” is the absence of principles, of interests in higher matters, and of genuine commitment, while its supreme concern is to be “brilliant” and “original,” attaching great importance to slick and professional “good writing,”
2/ to everything that is form and not substance, to esprit in the frivolous and urbane French sense. For the representatives of this “intelligentsia,” the brilliant sentence, the dialectical and polemical statement, have much more value than truth. Ideas,
3/ when these people make use of them, are only a pretext; the important thing is to be brilliant, to appear to be extremely intelligent—in the same way that for the politician today, the party ideology is merely a means of building a career.
4/ The “vanity fair,” the shabbiest subjectivism, often outright narcissism, are essential components of this phenomenon, and when these cliques of intellectuals take on an urbane tinge (in literary “salons” and cultural associations), this aspect becomes even more apparent.
5/ Whoever it was that said that “of all kinds of stupidity, the most annoying kind is the stupidity of intelligent people,” undeniably had a point.
6/ When, in analyzing a person down to his very core, we discover that this person is a non-entity, it would really be better if he were not also intelligent. #Evola
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