Brain Dead

Another pile of projection we didn't have the intellectual curiosity to wade through, but this paragraph is worth sharing. (The part in the parentheses.)

Intellectual curiosity appears to be rather ephemeral. It defies easy definition. Certainly one can cobble together a definition from a dictionary, and those who imagine themselves to be possessed of metric tons of it (and they’d surely prefer the metric system to the more red statish American system) are generally more than happy to identify those who do not possess it. Still, intellectual curiosity seems to be something that is understood and/or bestowed rather than earned. It seems to be a state of grace awarded by those who already exist in that exalted state rather than something one can attain through long-standing effort and merit.

The typist goes on to reveal that because G.W. Bush allegedly received better grades at Yale than John Kerry, we all know who's the more intellectually curious. No question, really, as regurgitating conventional & accepted wisdom to the Yale professor who silver-spooned it to a proudly average legacy admission is the surest sign of intellect & curiosity.