Intellectuals Are Cracking Up At These 50 Memes That Were Created Specially For Them
Interview With ExpertAfter almost 30 years (counting from the viral dancing baby) of people living, thinking, breathing, and speaking in memes, experts and even Internet users themselves are starting to see the effect it has on us. It turns out that meme culture is rotting our brains. At least that’s what kids these days are calling it. ‘Brain rot’ is the result of over-relying on memes and information on the Internet, to the point where we can’t think about anything else than memes or cultural phenomena and constantly reference them in our day-to-day conversations. This makes us less inclined to be creative and solve problems on our own, essentially making our minds decay.
However, there’s no need to panic and give up your daily dose of memes just yet. We might have found a way around it. To keep your last brain cells alive and functioning, we present you with a list of intellectual memes from the Instagram page “not.not.reading” that are guaranteed to make you think beyond the surface. Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to upvote the ones that made you contemplate the most.
While you’re at it, make sure to check out a conversation with Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, and media psychologist Dr. Corey Emanuel, who kindly agreed to provide a few tips on how to preserve our brains while consuming social media.
This post may include affiliate links.
Would it be too petty to post this picture every time some pedant points this out?
The better part this is that 4 year olds and Backstreet Boys overlap so much
Porch pirates stole an Amazon package off my doorstep. It was cat litter. The next day the open box with cat litter was placed back on my doorstep. Guess my order didn't live up to their expectations.
I wouldn't know. My therapist usually gets the lion's share of mine.
I recently met and spoke with a philosophy major who was stressed out about wanting to help his parents, who had scraped and saved to help him pay for school. I told him to quickly get another major and make philosophy his minor - or double-major. Get something that he was good at, paid well and he could stand doing. He left the convo looking much relieved.
I feel like the 90% of my brain activates only in the shower and at like 1am
My favourite Kafka quote: "One idiot is one idiot, two idiots are two idiots, ten thousand idiots are a political party."
Something I've noticed. The bigger the "business ethics" book is, the more unethical the business is. So a business without an "ethics" book is a joy to behold.
This is next level but I actually hate sound and would rather read subtitles than listen to movies, I've watched I don't how many shows on mute. Sometimes I start reading comments on posts and can't relate to them only to then realize that the comments relate to something 'said' in the reel that had no subtitles
That is a startlingly accurate summary of the history of philosophy.
A friend of mine has a wine bottle holding up a shelf in her kitchen labeled, "This bottle in structural. Do NOT remove."
Either that or perhaps the cat missed the carpet when coughing up a brain.
I prefer Léon Foucault. Pendulums are much easier for me to understand, and much more fun to watch.
I read a peer reviewed academic paper recently in which one of the citations was (remember to cite) (or words to that effect). It got all the way through the whole reviewing process and no one noticed!
And then there’s the people seeing this who are now thinking about thinking about thinking
I sometimes make it a challenge for me to read some of the pdfs I dl. Then I practise my note-taking while reading them and I delete them after reading. I still have copies on my laptop, so it's not completely gone. But! I am slowly building a notebook filled with the best info from these pdfs and that is so exciting!!!
Can you explain this gap in your resume? I was unemployed. Duh.
Monty Pythons, Philosophers song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SqQNgDrgg
This sets such a low bar for "intellectual" that it must be either irony or insult.
Because of my warped youth, every time I hear or read anything with philosophers, I think of the Professors Bruce at the University of Wallamaloo.
This sets such a low bar for "intellectual" that it must be either irony or insult.
Because of my warped youth, every time I hear or read anything with philosophers, I think of the Professors Bruce at the University of Wallamaloo.
