something to chew on..
"One of the things that the crowd does not like to do is to think. It therefore becomes socially smart not to think; how often we hear someone excusing himself from trying to follow another by the plea "It is too highbrow for me", and at the same time managing to convey the implication that it is a merit not to be highbrow, and that he has caught out the other fellow in something not quite commendable."
- from The Intelligent Individual and Society by Percy Williams Bridgman
"One of the things that the crowd does not like to do is to think. It therefore becomes socially smart not to think; how often we hear someone excusing himself from trying to follow another by the plea "It is too highbrow for me", and at the same time managing to convey the implication that it is a merit not to be highbrow, and that he has caught out the other fellow in something not quite commendable."
- from The Intelligent Individual and Society by Percy Williams Bridgman
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