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Originally Posted by Poppaea
This is still bothering me. You read what you thought I'd said only because you find me arrogant.
Why does this happen, when I say I prefer to use the gift of reading and the gift of being intelligent (intalics added by me) for books that are intelligently written?
I don't watch TV-shows either and nobody thinks it is arrogant to say one does not watch Germanys next Topmodel of Get my out of here - I am a Star because it is brainless trash and one prefers to engage ones brains for entertainment?
Why are different standards applied to reading/watching TV/movies?
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I will give my response to this. I doubt that you meant too imply this (at least I hope not) but that is how it comes across, arrogant; in other words -- stupid, ignorant individuals do not read well written books. Only an intellectual, or someone "with the gift of intelligence" reads such books.
I come a rural setting, my father grew up on a farm, and to him anyone who went to college was a snob, and saw themselves as superior to others; in other words, superior to him. Mainly because many here who attended college, especially during my childhood, did have the superior attitude. I have a college degree, thus I am an "intellectual" (in other words, the gift of learning), therefore I am better than you.
He owned two businesses, and it may not sound like much to some here, but he made around $100,000 a year (average income here is around $20,000). He could barely read, write, or do math; but it wasn't due to ignorance but lack of a good education. I won't go into the teachers here, sufice to say that you will hear the TEACHERS say "done done it" (
cringing). But to many he would not fit the concept of an intelligent individual. I am going to make the assumption (and we know what that can do) that my father would, even with a good education, fit the lower level of average IQ.
Dad would watch the "classics" on tv because he couldn't read them. We were encouraged to read and we had some of what I would call children's classics that my sister and I grew up reading.
I didn't see him as an "intellectual" and he didn't feel he was one just because he enjoyed watching movies made from the classics. He was just a regular person who worked a job, paid his bills, went fishing and hunting and loved to gardern.
I like classics and am going to enjoy reading the ones I have downloaded (well, not all, I am not enjoying Moby Dick) and I do see them in a positive manner.
Just my two cents on what your statement seemed to imply. Which is why I see it as arrogant.