From Michael Upton Sent Mon, Jun 22nd 1998, 05:07
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Che wrote: | As for anyone that has a problem with the word intelligent, there's | nothing wrong or pretentious about being intelligent. In the past there have been a lot of instances where one little group of people has gone around saying what's intelligent and what isn't. I think that's what bugs me about it a bit. Like intelligent isn't funny, intelligent isn't black, intelligent isn't emotional, etc etc... None of these are explicit in the word "intelligent", but I often feel like that's how it's used. So, I reckon it definitely can be "pretentious", in the sense of people saying "it's better than being stupid", with the irony that they don't see how stupid they are being in their closemindedness. No, that's not referring to Che. Well, it might be, but not intentionally. :-) Jeez, this looks a bit moral-highground-y. In practice, I'm a big believer in definition coming from usage. So, it's like, who cares what it stands for - "IDM" means "the music we discuss on here"... Michael "You know what? I'll call him Jet Jaguar..." http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html Site last updated 15/4/98