FadingDawn
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- Jul 18, 2023
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For example, if they could have been a classical musicians, whatever...
I've been reading a couple days about Georges Dumezil, a famous french philologist and mythologist, etc. Guy apparently could read in over 30 languages; which is very impressive indeed, and very highly commendable. I can understand how that guy could contribute meaningfully to something important -- and, indeed, he did. Apperently, he learned greek, latin and german in his youth... I always wonder how cool that would have been, to be able to understand the massive world of greece and rome, and appreciate the beauty and intricacy of their culture from such an early age; nowadays, classical students in some places don't even have to learn the languages. Maybe I'm just bitter; i'm not much better than monolingual, do not have, and am unlikely to have the prospect of any sort of higher education worth the name(i'm basically borderline retarded.) Even though im my youth that massively interested me, when I started to get into these topics... but quickly i just realized any serious pursuit of this is above my low intelligence, which is basically a prime candidate for eugenics. I realize I'm just too stupid to do anything that truly mattered to me at a truly important level. Oh, sure, everybody can keep to the "low" level, and read some guidebooks or primers on "interesting" subjects, etc.
But basically, being too stupid, and having to spend your life in the dark and heavy trammels of a 9 to 5 job, you don't have the capacity or the time to meaningfully engage with things that might have revealed themselves from behind the oridnary scenes of life, with a light which implied that there's genuinly meaningful and rich things which can profoundly move you. It's all very vague, and I do not have the courage or skill to properly express what i felt, and about what... but this is good enough fot my vent rn i guess, rough and crude as it is .
Nowadays, if you admire famous historians, or linguists, etc, you might get told "well, you 2 can learn teh languages... try duo lingo"; which is fine, for people who spend 5 years learning french and german, and think it's an achievment -- or something to brag about; when linguistic, or philosophical, or literary ability has no meaning or substance at all.
I've been reading a couple days about Georges Dumezil, a famous french philologist and mythologist, etc. Guy apparently could read in over 30 languages; which is very impressive indeed, and very highly commendable. I can understand how that guy could contribute meaningfully to something important -- and, indeed, he did. Apperently, he learned greek, latin and german in his youth... I always wonder how cool that would have been, to be able to understand the massive world of greece and rome, and appreciate the beauty and intricacy of their culture from such an early age; nowadays, classical students in some places don't even have to learn the languages. Maybe I'm just bitter; i'm not much better than monolingual, do not have, and am unlikely to have the prospect of any sort of higher education worth the name(i'm basically borderline retarded.) Even though im my youth that massively interested me, when I started to get into these topics... but quickly i just realized any serious pursuit of this is above my low intelligence, which is basically a prime candidate for eugenics. I realize I'm just too stupid to do anything that truly mattered to me at a truly important level. Oh, sure, everybody can keep to the "low" level, and read some guidebooks or primers on "interesting" subjects, etc.
But basically, being too stupid, and having to spend your life in the dark and heavy trammels of a 9 to 5 job, you don't have the capacity or the time to meaningfully engage with things that might have revealed themselves from behind the oridnary scenes of life, with a light which implied that there's genuinly meaningful and rich things which can profoundly move you. It's all very vague, and I do not have the courage or skill to properly express what i felt, and about what... but this is good enough fot my vent rn i guess, rough and crude as it is .
Nowadays, if you admire famous historians, or linguists, etc, you might get told "well, you 2 can learn teh languages... try duo lingo"; which is fine, for people who spend 5 years learning french and german, and think it's an achievment -- or something to brag about; when linguistic, or philosophical, or literary ability has no meaning or substance at all.
