Artemis on Nostr: Shallow intellectualism is like a fly trap. You get stuck to it & then you're just ...

Shallow intellectualism is like a fly trap. You get stuck to it & then you're just there, trapped in inanity, always "thinking" but never learning.

Usually this pseudo-intellectualism makes you feel smart by quietly suggesting things you probably already think or feel. It's not the newness of ideas that draw you in, it's not the complexity of thought. It's that it "feels right". You contemplate things you already know & have already felt. You get stuck in loops of confirmation bias.