Why are French intellectuals so pretentious?

>>8368292
Postmodernist """""intellectuals"""""

>>8368292
It's all that's left when anyone can have an idea
>Americans are still impressed by people just being smart

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>>8368292
Because they can hide behind walls of prose.

Is that Danny Devito?

>>8368292

Because post-modernism/structuralism are the bastard children of Nietzsche.

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Seriously, why?

>>8368292
all of modern philosophy is shit

there's no reason to read any philosopher other than aristotle

>>8368292
It's been a long time long time since the last thread of that kind !

continentals want the downfall of western civilization and people that are against this will naturally dislike their writing

>>8368427
thanks pol

>>8368306
>>8368427
>muh analytics
kill urselves

>>8368292
trop bon est trop con

>>8368292

You're asking the question the wrong way. It should be "Why is the rest of the "West" so anti-intellectual that intellectuals don't become celebrities like they do in France?"

>thinking Baudrillard is pretentious

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>>8368301

>redpilled

i love that a reference to a movie made by two deviant trannies is /pol/'s go to pride slogan.

>>8368306
Or, y'know, they can write well

>>8368309
This!!

>>8368991
>t. obscurantist

>>8368991
This guys got it. I award you 4 points

>>8368292
>2016
>using the word pretentious

I don't think I've ever seen a usage of the word by anyone but an idiot trying to disparage something that flew above their head.

>>8369204
>DUDE DISNEYLAND IS MORE REAL THAN REALITY LMAO
>DUDE OUR WORLD COPIES THE MAP NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND LMAO

Yeah, very intellectual. I don't know how the world would function without such insightful, brilliant minds.

>>8369204
Explain to me in clear, non-autistic terms what "deconstruction" is without sounding like a pretentious faggot.

>>8370085
the art of the mind rebelling against itself in reflexive dance.

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>>8368347
I beg to differ.

>>8370085
Shattering assumptions.

>>8368292
It's a natural defence as a result of exhausting slaugthering of analytic idiots.

>>8368427
Me2 lol

define pretentious