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Alphabet wrote:The most brilliant people more often than not have zero street smarts.
Always seemed like more of a story device rather than a real life thing. Figure it's pandering to me and all the other people that left school at 4. You'll always have eccentrics though.ROB wrote:Alphabet wrote:The most brilliant people more often than not have zero street smarts.
I saw a talk from an historian who looked at that idea. He reckons it was 200-300 years old.
Don't leave us hanging like that.ROB wrote:What I find really fucking pathetic are socially well adjusted people who want to be in academia so decide that they need to manufacture some type of visibly odd social behaviour in order to be part of that tribe.
Looks like the self promotion thing worked, your boy gets a hon mention in the new Adam Curtis "documentary" (link to part 1)Kurt wrote: As an intellect and a clever self promoter he was excellent. As an actual acitivist, that thing which gave him both academic and street cred, he sucked.
seektravelinfo wrote:What was it again that Nowonmai did ?
seektravelinfo wrote:Kurt wrote:seektravelinfo wrote:What was it again that Nowonmai did ?
Newhwhemmymmme posted the link to the film el3so did.
What film? This one? https://youtube.com/watch?v=YddwkMJG1Jo&feature=share
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