Quote Originally Posted by burnable
to dante: these verbal assaults toward you are mostly ill-founded. I see that you made an observation based on the most typical drug-user. As you've seen with your responses, there are exceptions to that type.
What I enjoy so much about this thread is that it got the attention of the sophisticated and intelligent ppl on these boards who usually don't care to comment in a less thought-inspiring forum. I'm sure most of them are quietly proud of their elevated minds and don't enjoy being classified with those who prefer more intellectually deficient, pacifying activities. For that reason, I'd make less general dictums if I did have something to say, that way there'd be room for the smart ones to feel they weren't the targets of accusation.

However, your first post hit home immediately to me; I'm always trying to talk about classical or sophisticated topics to people I party with, and they generally groove on it sufficiently, but at the end it usually seems like their attitude is "whatever, I just came here to party, not to learn and shit." And I'm thinking, "But that's what partying is to me. Am I just a total nerd for wanting to expand my mind in this way, despite being surrounded by the ignorant?"

You're a cool fucker dude, don't let these jackasses give u shit-the ignorant tend to get mad when they're confronted with something they don't understand
So true, it just boils down to one thing - People, and not necessarily drug users, but people in general, don't seem to like Intellectuals, if you look at History, you'll see it's littered with examples of persecution of intellectuals because people were either scared of jealous of them. The Soviet Union is one example, but anti-intellectualism is also very prevelant in modern day America as well, except it's done in a more trivial but effective way. People don't openly persecute intellectuals, they are just (with the help of pop culture) reduced to the status of 'geeks' and 'nerds'. This is why I blame the era of the 60's partly, and the music associated with it up until this point; because the 60's was the birth of fame associated with modern telecommunications, the whole world with the benefit of television, radio and now a host of other devices can see what pop culture dictates the ideal person to be like. He or she is not the scientist, or the historian, or the philosopher, but the rock star, the socialite and the film star.