Originally posted by Bill Krozby
because he's well spoken? dresses like a dapper gangster?
It's the classic smart person trap of not knowing they sound really retarded when they try to talk about something outside the field they are an expert in.
The Zizek debate was a great demonstration of this at many subtle levels. He brought out his classic lobster hierarchy BS and Zizek dismantled it in 2 sentences, as well as the basic bad assumption that Marxism means no hierarchies.
The thing is, when real big daddy intellectuals talk out of their specialized field, it's usually because they have really informed themselves about that subject. Jordie really does not give enough of a fuck to do this for almost anything he talks about that isn't psychology.
But even ignoring all of that, he's just immensely overrated as a public intellectual purely because he made a public stand that was perceived as being anti-SJW and the internet epic gamer BEN SHAPIRO OWNS LIBTARD contingent latched on to him as a result. The best indication of this is that books he has written are frankly trash. They're pretty popular but they are trash, kind of like a 50 Shades of Grey. The books by someone like Zizek (I only use him as an example because they shared a stage as if they were equals, when that couldn't be further from the truth, so he's a great demonstration) are of the type that will be studied for generations because they are original and groundbreaking..
As an actual intellectual he's more similar to the level of some cunt like Sam Harris.
