intellectual snobbery
February 11, 2007 I like the show Grey's Anatomy. I dislike the title character (I step out of the room during her scenes) but I'm riveted when the camera's focused on my favorite character, Dr. Christina Yang.
Dr X (my quasi-mentor) calls the show "[a story that] revolves around all these self-involved people." And of my favorite character he says "she's the most self-involved of them all."
What's Grey's Anatomy got to do with anything? Well, it just illustrates this long-standing love-hate relationship I've had with intellectual snobbery. Dr. Christina Yang is just one of the long list of fictional charaters who I've loved because they were just darn smart, and couldn't help but show it (or rub it in your face).
At the same time, I just can't stand some real-life forms of intellectual snobbery–even those I engage in myself. And even though I feel like a hypocrite, I can't seem to help intensely disliking some people who have that "I-am-immensely-smarter-than-you" attitude (or its infinte variations, such as: "I-am-much-better-read-than-you; or "I'm-into-post-post-structuralism-I'm-brilliant-that-way") while in the same breath admiring people who're brilliant and not ashamed to let the world know.
Yes, I know that not all brilliant people are arrogant about their brilliance. (I actually have an inkling that there are more humble-brilliant people, it's just that they're a lot less visible than the arrogant ones, for obvious reasons.)
I don't know why we can be so self-contradictory, sometimes.
And, a bit of snobbery (not intellectual, though):
Have you seen the TVCs for this new Filipino film, The Promise? I don't know which is less believable: Richard Gutierrez playing a sakada (has he ever worked the sugar-cane fields in his life? I know I haven't); or that people still buy the love-story-on-a-hacienda plot line that's been exploited by dozens of Pinoy and Mexican soaps, even PARODIED in a Neozep commercial, for crying out loud.
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