As I’ve entered my 30s, I’m beginning to realize that people we consider to be the “higher educated class” or those with fancy degrees are actually the true midwits of society.
Having lived, worked and attended events with these “higher educated people” and seeing how blindly they “trust the science” or how they like to overcomplicate certain topics has led me to believe they are the TRUE midwits of modern society.
These are actually just midwit idiots cosplaying what they think a smart person looks like. — Alex Becker
These are the kinds of people who would rather read a book or watch a video on martial arts and fight technique than just put the gloves on and get punched in the face by an acne-faced 16-year-old at the local fight gym.
These are the kinds of people who think they are the authority on health and nutrition science because they have a fancy “medical degree,” yet they spent less than 25 hours on nutrition science during their 4 years at medical school. They themselves haven’t seen their own six-pack since pre-med and have no idea how their own hormones function in response to the intake of the vitamin-fortified processed food they claim is “good for you.”
These are the kinds of people who think they are experts in relationships because they majored in psychology, but if you look closely at their personal lives, they have a failing marriage and a small social circle of people who can barely stand to be around them.
These are the pompous academia nerds who spout “trust the science” and “don’t question the science” when that is the most anti-science statement you could possibly make.
These overthinkers are the types of people Nassim Taleb would call “The Fragilistas” who fall for the Soviet-Harvard delusion—the (unscientific) overestimation of the reach of scientific knowledge.
They would rather take a handful of pills (like the most famous modern midwitter Bryan Johnson famously known for taking 100 pills daily) to make up for their nutrient-deficient plant-based diet and get all the booster shots and peptides rather than just eat some steak, get some sun, and do some moderate exercise or weight training 3x a week.
These are the same people who are in medical, economic and social planning fields that makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects potentially severe and invisible. — Nassim Taleb
The funny part is, they are so unaware of this because they are so cooped up in their little methane-filled academia bubble.
They have surrounded themselves in this tiny circle of the “higher educated class” who indulge in the smell of their own farts and echo-chamber their ivy-league pre-programmed beliefs, thinking they are the “ascended chosen ones” and that the rest of us uneducated plebs are just the ants on the ant farm who are incapable of free and rational thinking.
2 surgeons.
1 dressed like a surgeon, the other dresses how they like.
Always choose the latter. They got there by skill, not by conforming and wearing a costume metaphorically.
— Nassim Taleb
I would rather be a RETARDMAXXER that hangs out with a based blue-collar dude at the bar than spend any amount of time around these academia MIDWITS.
The era of the “Academic” is coming to an end.
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini has already replaced you and your “memorization” skills that can quickly recall any study or article to support your biases.
What we are starving for is “The Battle Tested Wise Men.”
The ones who are GENUINELY curious about topics and ideas and who go out and test their ideas in the real world and report back with their own results. (To which I will give Bryan Johnson some credit, but he has still overcomplicated the fuck out of everything and on top of that…has been exposed for lying about his reporting to support his anti-aging protocols and over-priced supplements)
The ones who actually DID HARD SHIT and can talk from experience.
It’s unfortunate that most of these individuals couldn’t be bothered to build a “personal brand” since they are actually living life and not giving a fuck about what is going on online in this digital influencer space.
I think it’s safe to say we’re all tired of these shallow and flashy influencers clogging up our algorithms.
We want the REAL and the RAW.
Battle-tested entrepreneurs giving hyper-specific niched advice on YouTube.
Actual successful married couples with healthy happy children giving advice on relationships rather than these “Sadia Khans” relationship gurus lying about their psychology degree and relationship success, only to find out she is the current side-chick home-wrecker who is not fit to give ANY advice on relationships... or really ANYTHING besides being a good fucking liar and learning how to make money off of it on the internet.
Doctors who are GENUINELY SHREDDED and JACKED who have an aspirational body that men can look up to. Not some doctor that can barely do 10 push-ups but tells you your cholesterol is too high regardless of the fact that you’re built like a greek God from lifting weights 3x a week and eating carnivore, that somehow, you should stop everything you’re doing, go on statins and being monitoring your cholesterol…
Anyways, that’s enough of that for today.
I just came back from a networking event and had a dinner with a doctor who was freaking about the amount of salt that was used to cook the ribeye steaks we were getting served only to have him gasp at me generously season my food with salt and as I observed him telling me to reduce my consumption of sodium, I couldn’t help but think…”but you look like a bitch…you have titties and noodle arms…why the fuck would I listen to you…”
For the longest time, I admired these academia nerds and thought they were smarter than me in every way since I didn’t have the “intellect” or attention span to get good enough grades to get into one of these ivy-league schools. Only to later find out most of these academia nerds are incapable of any free, critical, and rational thought and are really only good at memorization and being programmed to think what these Soviet-Harvard professors told them is the truth.
I know better now…
There is really nothing special or actually impressive about most of these individuals.
You’re probably better off trusting your intuition and gut instincts than trying to take advice from any one of these false “experts”.
