truly despise that cute quippy tone that "high-brow journalism" invokes when talking about people who produce concepts in attempts to explain the world and its structures

not everything can be summed up in "mmm yes" wine-sipping extended elevator pitch tones
some people desperately need to understand the world and they make genuine efforts to do so; it's not just a matter of "interest" or something to do at the weekend house
i resent when ideas are handled at a great remove, as something charming and amusing, in "look at the pandas, darling" tones

it's all deeply anti-intellectual and it reinforces assumptions that knowledge is exclusive & elitist
(end rant—i know this is all much more complex than i can achieve here <3)
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