/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13448994]

>call yourself a polymath
>can't maintain or do auto repairs by yourself
>can't install plumbing or electrical wiring
>can't construct or design a building with wood, concrete, or steel
>can't survive on your own if society was to break down
>can't farm or maintain livestock
>can't build a fire, hunt game, and forage for edible plants and berries
>have no practical knowledge and have to call a specialist anytime something breaks down or goes wrong despite claiming yourself to have wide-ranging knowledge and learning
>probably can't maintain or plan a lawn or garden to country club standards with cross-hatched mowing
So why call yourself a polymath if you're learning isn't wide-ranging but is restricted to the subjects of math, philosophy, lit crit, and other strictly bookish/theoretical subjects?
Seems like a bunch self-inflated egoists who have never stepped foot out of their trust-fund libraries. Pic related is a polymath when the toilet gets clogged or his sink is backed up or he gets a flat tire etc.

[Anonymous No.13449003]

>there are mathlets who can't do underwater basketweaving

[Hot take nigga No.13449019]

>>13448994
>he doesn't know the definition of polymath

[Anonymous No.13449043]

>>13449019
Polymath: noun; A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.
>>he doesn't know the definition of polymath

[Anonymous No.13449052]

we live in a society

[Anonymous No.13449060]

>>13448994
>calling yourself a polymath EVER
>even if you actually are one

[Anonymous No.13449070]

>>13449060
>calling
>

[Anonymous No.13449082]

>>13448994
There are no polymaths left.

[Anonymous No.13449140]

When would I need to have all these skills when I’m stuck in a fucking nightmare world metropolis with over three million fucking people, while living in a shitty one room apartment working IT every day

[Anonymous No.13449241]

>>13449070

[Anonymous No.13449473]

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[Anonymous No.13449480]

>>13448994
>country club standards with cross-hatched mowing
Do Americans do this? It's bad enough they run all their tie colours in the bastard direction, but cross hatching a lawn is a new level in perdition.

[Anonymous No.13449491]

>>13448994
So learn that shit?
You call yourself a polymath but you can't pick up a new skill?
Lemme guess, you felt inadequate so you did a double major and call yourself a polymath now

[Anonymous No.13449495]

>>13449480
Yes, this is a thing lawn services will advertise, and the reason a lot of people don't mow their lawn but contract it out. They can pay a mexican pennies on the dollar to mow their lawn cross-hatched or any other kind of fancy style.

[Anonymous No.13449503]

>>13449491
Pic related is a visual representation of your reading comprehension

[Anonymous No.13449548]

>calls himself smart
>Knows how to build an IKEA shelf
>Doesn't know how to code

[Anonymous No.13449558]

>>13449548
>designed the code to "print" the ikea shelf
>can't build the ikea shelf himself
How do we solve this paradox?

[Anonymous No.13449588]

>>13448994
Unironically how do I learn all this stuff in OP when I’m a city cuck uni student? Books on this so I’m at least aware of how to do auto repairs?

[Anonymous No.13449602]

>>13449588
YouTube how to vids would probably be your best bet. Otherwise I'm not aware of any kind of books. I feel like you just learn it from someone else who already knows like most "blue collar" trade jobs.

[GOD No.13449625]

>>13448994
So? You give poor people money to do that.

[Anonymous No.13449636]

>>13449588
Moving to the countryside is the first step.

[Anonymous No.13449647]

>>13448994
if you can't build a binary calculator out of household materials you simply aren't allowed to call yourself "smart"

[Anonymous No.13449682]

>>13449588
Find friends from whom you can learn, or take up the things together

[Anonymous No.13449694]

>>13449588
Work on a building site

[Anonymous No.13449706]

>>13449625
Yeah because electricians are worse off than philosophy/literature students who end up working as baristas...

[Anonymous No.13449996]

>>13448994
How do I learn this ? Do I have to visit /diy/ ?

[Anonymous No.13450121]

>>13448994
>call yourself a polymath
>can't escape the material plane through transcendental meditation
>can't build a nuclear reactor from the ground up
>can't sculpt soapstone
>can't beat an ancient Egyptian grand master at a game of Hounds and Jackals
>can't run a triple marathon while reading the world as will and representation

I pay proles like you to do these shitty jobs precisely because i can delegate these caveman jobs to the lower echelons of mankind. I don't pay these Boeotians to express their irrelevant opinions. Get back unclogging my toilets.

[Anonymous No.13450132]

>>13448994
I was obsessed with wilderness survival when I was a child and read book after book after book so I actually could survive and I do know how to make snares and fish traps and shelters. And I have killed a lot of small animals and a few larger ones.

[Anonymous No.13450144]

>>13449558
I took 3d drafting and know how to run a cnc router and a plasma cutter.
>>13449588
For auto stuff just watch YouTube. I took auto shop as well and know how to do oil and tire changes as well as balance the tires but I don't have the tools for it or the 3d drafting stuff. Oh I've used a laser engraver too.

[Anonymous No.13450150]

>>13449647
Just downloaded the app now what

[Anonymous No.13450175]

>>13448994
>le middle class man romanticizing the working class and showing it to le degenerated intellectuals
Nothing original or interesting about you either

[Anonymous No.13450185]

>>13448994
I just have my slaves do that shit lol

[Anonymous No.13450762]

>>13448994
>im a polymath
>omg really? what do you do?
>you know the usual like unclogging toilets and repair stuff

[Anonymous No.13450773]

>>13450185
that makes you a /pol/ymath