I completely disagree with “hundreds of people smarter than anyone currently alive”. There are absolutely people out there who are as smart or likely smarter than the recorded ‘great thinkers’ of history. Average human intelligence likely hasn’t demonstrably changed in over 200,000 years.
What is true is that we live in an unprecedented time of access to information, and access to the ideas and histories of those writers and elucidators of those writers, which means there is little to no excuse to not understand the epistemology of these concepts, something that only the most privileged writers would have had access to in the past (outside of, of course having to pay for access to modern scholarship on topics, which is a bane to any kind of academic progress).
As you said though, ultimately for people like Grimes, ‘deep thinking’ is little more than an ego trip, not an actual exploration of ideology and conceptions and how they may affect your life. It is little more than a word salad.
I completely disagree with “hundreds of people smarter than anyone currently alive”. There are absolutely people out there who are as smart or likely smarter than the recorded ‘great thinkers’ of history. Average human intelligence likely hasn’t demonstrably changed in over 200,000 years.
What is true is that we live in an unprecedented time of access to information, and access to the ideas and histories of those writers and elucidators of those writers, which means there is little to no excuse to not understand the epistemology of these concepts, something that only the most privileged writers would have had access to in the past (outside of, of course having to pay for access to modern scholarship on topics, which is a bane to any kind of academic progress).
As you said though, ultimately for people like Grimes, ‘deep thinking’ is little more than an ego trip, not an actual exploration of ideology and conceptions and how they may affect your life. It is little more than a word salad.