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16377765 No.16377765 [Reply] [Original]

Why is it when more-and-more people begin partaking in an intellectual field, the field itself starts to come off pseudointellectual instead?

When intellectual talking points become repeated ad infinitum, they weirdly degrade in quality over time.

>> No.16377802

>>16377765
Repetition destroys the novelty of things. This is why some defense attorneys (in criminal AND civil cases) will get the victim on the stand and make them tell their story over and over again, until they aren't even crying or intense about it so that the story becomes desensitized to the jury. Like when you say a word over and over and it loses all meaning.

>> No.16377865

you have to go back >>>/sci/12128937

>> No.16377897

>>16377765
why do womyn do this

>> No.16377902

God i want to put a hijab on her and have 8 children with her

>> No.16377909

>>16377765
A huge part of philosophy is the novelty: it opens up new avenues of thought and expression. Once those avenues have been opened up and welltrodden its value diminishes. It's like humour in that respect. Of course, some of it has value beyond its mere novelty, but that is the exception rather than the rule. Some philosophies avoid this: exceedingly complex systems that can't be explained in simpler terms, or those that have some perennial worth... But again, these things are the exception rather than the rule, and even the latter can come off more as truism. Add to this that many complete functionaries start employing philosophies ineptly, dulling their incisiveness like a quality paring knife used to hack away at a brick.