Christopher Langan and the Pseudo-realism of the Intellectual with the Dead-end Job

Madison, WI, USA: (2018)
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For intellectuals, and probably others, one form of escapism is a kind of constricted and shallow hyper-realism—the hyper-realism of having a dead-end job, even though one has a PhD or an IQ of 170. And that sort of hyper-realism is pseudo-realism, because realism is not about having a bad life; it is having the courage to have a good life, which the intellectual with the dead end job does not have.

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John-Michael Kuczynski
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