Let's get the ball rolling

So i see you've made it my my blog. Thanks! (well more thanks are in order if you continue to read not only this post, but subsequent posts) I figure the best thing to to with the first post here is to look at this blog's title. In particular the term "psuedointellectual". First of all let's get a definition :

pseu·do·in·tel·lec·tu·al

  /ˌsudoʊˌɪntlˈɛktʃuəl/ Show Spelled[soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uhl] - noun

1 .a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.

2. a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.

A very small amount of research reveals i have much work ahead of my to qualify to use the tag "psuedointellectual".

Here is a summary of what is expected of me ( ehow.com is clearly an authority on most matters so there's no need to look any further)

One point they make is to master someone else's idea(s) ... and keep them fresh. Well i'm currently touting a myriad of theories stolen from Alvin Toffler's Future Shock . A smashing read about how society/culture is dealing with an increased amount of transience in our lives and the decline of permenence in everything from commodities to organisations, from friends to fashion ... and of course technology.

At the moment I can manage to work at least one idea from the book into most conversations with relative ease. As for the actual relevance of the interjected ideas and the care factor of those i'm convesing with, that's not important ... i'm psuedointellectualising to the max yo!!

Soon, however, i'm going to have to source some fresh material. Some people are finding my allusions predicable and tiresome. I'm thinking some fundamental points from Schopenhauer would sound kinda impressive.


I'll take a tip from the linked article above clearly states:

"A true pseudo intellectual only uses his bite-size elements of knowledge to impress, he or she does not use it to make the world a better place."

On this note, i hope that you will be impressed by what you read here, and I only secretly hope that it will make your world a better place.