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Who are some other good examples of overrated midwits?

>> No.17510347

>>17510307
Richard Dawkins

>> No.17510423

>>17510307
Hitchens
Kerouac
sherman alexie
pynchon

>> No.17510425

>>17510307
Lacan

>> No.17510465

>>17510307
>>17510423
>>17510425
These guys

>> No.17510474

>>17510423
Pynchon is absolutely not a midwit, someone found his navy file and the dudes IQ tested somewhere in the 190s

>> No.17510482

>>17510423
Pynchon is not a midwit, although you are apparently

>> No.17511371

>>17510474
Midwit is not an iq issue, it’s a soul issue

>>17510482
I am not a Midwit , although you are apparently

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>>17510307

>> No.17512445

>>17510307
Cormac McCarthy

>> No.17512458

>>17510307
you

>> No.17512501

Is Twain really a midwit guys? I've only read some passages and mean to read him he seems comfy.

>> No.17512584

>>17512501
Crotchety old social liberal. Like his contemporaries, his social criticisms are cringe and I cant help but hate how he played a part in nudging America towards the pathetic state it's in now. I feel a similar disgust towards Whitman.

>> No.17512756

>>17512501
Midwit is being generous. Twain is an outright dimwit.

>> No.17512773

>>17512584
what?

>> No.17512783

>>17510307
unironically earnest hemingway, he wrote newspaper stories made for midwits and lowwits

>> No.17512787

>>17510307
Freud is the King of Midwit Mountain

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>>17510347

>> No.17512929

>>17512584
Any specifics on his politics? Genuinely asking.

>> No.17512941

>>17510347
Kek fpbp

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17512951

You just know who made this thread.

>> No.17512955

>>17512584
I agree. His insights are just /r/showerthoughts tier

>> No.17513120

>>17512951
leave him alone, he was a smart man

>> No.17513183

>>17513120
If he was so smart why didn't he just replace his valve

>> No.17513271

>>17512895
Retarded pic. Everyone on the right save for Dawkins is nothing but a popularizer and of absolutely no academic stature in his respective field.

>> No.17513887

>>17512895
Bill Nye ironically gives the most honest response, saying he’s skeptical of certain philosophical ideas and not outright dismissing them.

>> No.17513908

>>17513887
Not really. Speaking realistically, things you can touch and feel are the least real. They are literally just nerve sensations from things that could be totally different to what you perceive them to be. He's basically attempting ye olde skepticism of Being in favor of Becoming, which has been shown time and time again to be ridiculous. Being skeptical of any given philosophy is fine, but that's not really what he was saying.

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>>17512951
speaking of posthumous publishing, what do we think of John David Card

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>> No.17514712

>>17510474
>>17510482
>failed calculus

>> No.17514836

>>17512584
What about his politics don’t you like?

>> No.17515000

Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Nitchee
Stirner
Marx