Thread by @MacaesBruno

There seems to be an intellectual type today whose whole explicit approach is “I can’t be bothered to learn about crypto, or Africa, or China, or the metaverse, or Islam, or QAnon or anything really”. And this is regarded as wisdom?

The anti-intellectual type has for some reason become the mainstream intellectual

I mean it when I say it’s the mainstream position. Certainly the most common and the most popular

I could write wildly popular columns arguing “frankly I never had the time to find out what this crypto thing was” or “there is nothing to figure out in what China wants, everyone knows what they want” And so on

What is essentially a confession of imbecility has come to mean a sophisticated knowingness about the world