Is there a compromise between "intellectual" and "pretentious"?

[Jeanette X]

I have already expressed my feelings on this subject in the Convention Pictures thread, but I think it wouldn't hurt to repeat them:

http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showt...php?t=69700535

Protesting is great thing.
Its hippies can't stand, especially not the girls. I developed a very low tolerance to them in college. Fuck you and your self-rightous veganism, I'll eat all the hormone-injected meat I damn well want, and no, I don't believe you when you say you're bisexual. I don't want to smoke pot with you, it won't make you Phish albums sound any better, and stop meditating in public with that smug look on your face. Nor will I join your Womyn's Goddess Coven. Take down your Che Guevara poster too, commies aren't cool. Get out of my face before I set your dreads on fire, you fucking naive smug little Trustafarian slimecunt. Take your white guilt somewhere else, I don't want to fucking hear it. And bathe in something other than patchuli for a change!

Smug little shits like that are why nobody takes us liberals seriously.

The same also applies to the postcard punks. Fuck you all.

The study of social sciences makes you angry at injustice, but it also makes you just as angry at naive people who can't see the larger picture of society. Those little twits scratch some bark from the Tree of Global Evil and go off in an orgy of self congratulation, while I sit here alone and bleeding having torn off my nails trying to dig at the root structure with my bare hands in an obsessive effort to understand it. Stop smoking pot and help me dig, you little shits! Oh wait, you don't have the patience for or the brains for it. My mistake. Go fuck in the woods and enjoy yourselves.