Elitism and You.

[Calamity]

I laughed hysterically watching people sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide

 

[WeedWorm]

Anytime anyone gets something wrong, I correct them. I dont considered correcting someone to be eltist unless youre a total dick about it and you talk down to them about it, which I dont do. I hope.

 

[WeedWorm]

I laughed hysterically watching people sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide

Penn and Teller Bullshit? I laugh so hard at that. Plus I did chemistry in school so I knew what they were talking about.

 

[linchowlewy]

I laughed hysterically watching people sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide

Penn and Teller Bullshit? I laugh so hard at that. Plus I did chemistry in school so I knew what they were talking about.

I figured out it was water myself! how smart am I.

on topic. I'm not elitist about everything. i just have a huge huge huge ego. although if someone is being borderline retarded or says something wrong in one of my preferred subjects (evolution and history) i will make a huge rant about it. also i have literally argued for 3 days about religion to someone but that's a bit off-topic (I was on the atheist side).

 

[Lord Krunk]

Ironically, neutrality. If I hear someone trying to sound unbiased one minute but spinning opinions as facts the next, I call bullshit.

Don't we all?

 

[hypothetical fact]

People that cry, become depressed or even if they need a minute to gather their thoughts. I immediately tell them that they are living in the past and look down on them for being unable to feel apathetic to their losses.

 

[Brett Alex]

It's not really elitism when 99% of people out there are borderline retarded.

Was that meant to be a joke? I laughed anyway.

 

[theklng]

I can admit I'm pretty elitist at times.

I have hobbies, and I care intensely about my hobbies. If you want to rank yourself to par with my hobbies then you better make some effort to back it up. When I got into game reviews, I spent a lot of time figuring out what kinda reviews I liked. I found writers like mjhhiv, RAKtheUndead, Maet, RentCavalier, Gigantor, SimuLord, Spartan Bannana as well as the old X-Play and Zero Punctuation reviews, and I figured out a way to make my writing work with those influences in mind.

Then, once I felt like I had a firm understanding of what made my reviews work, and if they worked at all, I started to notice what I came to feel as my home in User Reviews a little muddy. New users and short reviews... What happened? So I critiqued. (SirDanRhodes can attest to that.)

I think I could be easily regarded as an elitist writer when you look at most of my posts. Although most times it's in the name of offering advice for people who can take it (and take it harsh), and accidentally alienating those who can't.

But it's okay, it's all for the greater good. [sup]The greater good![/sup]

Oh, and I'm intense about writing and drawing, too, as those are also my hobbies. You can ask just about anyone, I get a little... Forceful with my opinions.

anyway, i'm elitist when it comes to science. I'm allowed to be, because I got a phD, and you didn't. And I like to call people on it when they spew pseudo- and preconceptual-science.

PhD is the grammatically correct way of writing it. Also, what did you do your dissertation on?

you're exactly one of those people i referred to in my previous post.

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

You're exactly one of the people that I referred to in my previous post.

What, the people who think they're pompous because they're elitist about what they like instead of thinking they're about the bigger picture? Allow me to clarify my stance a little.

The greatest flaw of the average man is the consideration that he is better than everyone else, especially when only exercising it through bureaucratic measures. E.G. Smart asses who correct spelling and grammar errors, as if it was the end of the world if someone misspelled the term YOU'RE. People like that like to create a reason for themselves, and usually the outcome is just as bad as their own mind is.

The real elite is actually keeping quiet and working for more meaningful causes than a world society to end all spelling errors. If you think you're an elitist, you've got to prove it.

I might add that while IQ certainly has its say in this, there are different forms of intelligence.

While I naturally agree with the concept of elitism having different levels, you seem to mistake elitism for a higher purpose. Granted, spelling and grammar are important on a small level, because they have their natural uses in day-to-day life, but what you address as "quantifying self-worth via measurable concepts" (For example, seeing correct spelling and grammar as being of more worth than the message), I see it as "clarifying the communicative medium through which we all use" (For example, correcting someone who uses dangling modifiers to address the sentence incorrectly, like "The young boy in the car crash inspiring sympathy from myself and my mother who died" implies to the reader that my mother died, not the boy who inspired the sympathy).

I'm not going to pretend I'm serving some higher purpose, leading the grammar invasion atop the silver steed of righteousness and self-worth, but you certainly seem to indicate in your post that you're working on something very silent but important.

So yes, from your post, not only are you elitist, but you're elitist as hell. You regard yourself with a smug sense of superiority so vast you aren't even telling us why you think you're better. You simply say "I'm working in the shadows, and I know I will accomplish more than you." Con-gratu-freakin'-lations, sir, but instead of pretending like I make a bigger difference, I help the little guy. People have come to me asking them to edit their reviews, and I have. People go to me asking for my opinions, which I give.

I make a difference for these people, which I'd like to argue is more important than your shadowy self-validation, sir. So while I appreciate the time it takes for you to remind me just how much better you are, sir, I'm going to continue making what little difference I can, and measure my elitism by that. While you, sir, continue to gauge your self-worth in the shadows and flickering light.

Forgive my moment of blindness, sir, I tend to mistake helpful pretentiousness for self-righteous, arrogant pretentiousness. It won't happen again.

[sup]Just as a footnote, elitist [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/elitist] is defined as "consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group," and considering I find writers of some talent to be a select group, I find myself elitist. I think you've mistaken elitism, sir, for crusading [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crusader].[/sup]

[sup]Footnote 2: For anyone who thought I was serious about the greater good [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY] should watch more movies.[/sup]

 

[orifice]

I am an Elitist. Elitism is the only fair way to run an education system and society.

 

[SunoffaBeach]

I totally hate Anti-Elitism.

Whenever I see that I have to comment.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Of course, if a thread ends without anyone suffering an aneurysm, what the point? I also enjoy pointing out useless facts, like 2*2 approximates to 3.

I'm an elitist for not understanding maths at all. I get a little bit of wave physics, but thats about it

I can also prove mathematically that the answer to 2*2 doesn't exist. Math is fun.

Having done a bit of proof, i'd actually like to see that!

Been a while

2 * 2 = (-2) *1/(1-3/2).
The second factor on the right hand side has a geometric series expansion
1/(1-3/2) = 1 + 3/2 +9/4 + 27/8 + ...,
which diverges. Hence, the solution to 2 * 2 does not exist.

 

[Arsen]

History, perspective within history, literature, wolves, wine, women, warfare, and religion.

 

[corporate_gamer]

Im elitist about elitist people. It Just things people; movies, art, music, ps3, xbox360 or bloody apples. Whatever.

I look down on people who think you're inferior because you don't care which console is better or how the camera angles in some art house film are far superior to the latest blockbuster. Because they are clearly defective as a person if they invest themselves so much in something so insignificant.

 

[Neosage]

I look down on people who play call of duty, I dunno why, I just do.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

I don't think I'm elitist. Sure, I can be short with people and can be quite cruel but noe elitist...

I'm just better than you are that's all.

 

[SargentToughie]

I find it funny that we have a thread about elitisim, when several other websites call us Elitists.

I understand that it's not true, I just find it funny