Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

I hate it when someone has read a middlebrow book, and then thinks that the concept he learned suddenly applies to everything he is seeing. Mostly because (a) the middlebrow book dumbs down the concept, (b) the person who read it didn't actually understand it, and (c) when all you have is a hammer middlebrow book, every problem looks like a nail jargon term invented for a popular audience to dumb down a concept.

I call this observation the Malcolm Gladwell Postulate.

See, this reminds me of part of The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Gandhi, where you learn the central tenet of Buddhism of, "Every man for himself."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

See, this reminds me of part of The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Gandhi, where you learn the central tenet of Buddhism of, "Every man for himself."

I'm here to eat some papadams, and kick azz. And I'm all out of papdams.
-Gandhi

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I hate it when someone has read a middlebrow book, and then thinks that the concept he learned suddenly applies to everything he is seeing. Mostly because (a) the middlebrow book dumbs down the concept, (b) the person who read it didn't actually understand it, and (c) when all you have is a hammer middlebrow book, every problem looks like a nail jargon term invented for a popular audience to dumb down a concept.

I call this observation the Malcolm Gladwell Postulate.

Shoulda called it the Malcolm Gladwell Colorway. It was sitting right there.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Shoulda called it the Malcolm Gladwell Colorway. It was sitting right there.

.... don't want to get on the bad side of the yarn people.

Knitters don't play, they slay.

 

[Ryujin]

I hate it when someone has read a middlebrow book, and then thinks that the concept he learned suddenly applies to everything he is seeing. Mostly because (a) the middlebrow book dumbs down the concept, (b) the person who read it didn't actually understand it, and (c) when all you have is a hammer middlebrow book, every problem looks like a nail jargon term invented for a popular audience to dumb down a concept.

I call this observation the Malcolm Gladwell Postulate.

You have just described why I'm glad that Jordan Peterson taught at the university that I'm NOT employed by.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

You have just described why I'm glad that Jordan Peterson taught at the university that I'm NOT employed by.

Well, if people who won't shut their piehole about middlebrow books annoy me ...


How do you think I feel about people who can't stop telling me about the epiphanies they got from watching a youtube video?

 

[prabe]

Well, if people who won't shut their piehole about middlebrow books annoy me ...


How do you think I feel about people who can't stop telling me about the epiphanies they got from watching a youtube video?

I tend to be very skeptical of epiphanies in general, whatever the source/s. (There was a thing in my D&D setting called The Epiphany Machine, and it was bad.)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I tend to be very skeptical of epiphanies in general, whatever the source/s. (There was a thing in my D&D setting called The Epiphany Machine, and it was bad.)

Eh, I don't mind epiphanies per se.

As Mama Snarf always told me, "You are about 99 watts short of a 100 watt bulb, Snarf. But just in case you ever get some idea in that thick skull o' yours, 'member this. Acknowledging that ya got a problem is the first step toward ignoring the problem. Now, get yer mama some video head cleaner and some of those high-class plastic bags from the Piggly Wiggly."

 

[prabe]

Not even this site, really:

I just read a thing about a broader celebrity, and I know understand why I find a particular TRPGing figure deeply annoying--at least, they seem to hit the same buttons for me as the celebrity's main persona, which I find staggeringly unpleasant.

(Note: This about what they project, how they come across; this not about either of them as people.)

 

[TiQuinn]

I call this observation the Malcolm Gladwell Postulate.

God bless you for this. Yes.