Iām about to post something intellectual and captivating for an audience that prides itself on being uncapturable.
You know the gameā¦If I try too hard, youāll smell the effort and dismiss it. If I donāt try hard enough, youāll scroll past. If Iām clever, youāll call it pretentious. If Iām simple, youāll call it shallow.
Everyone here wants to be intellectually stimulated, but admitting you were intellectually stimulated feels like admitting you werenāt already thinking that thought yourself.
So hereās my actual moveā¦.Iām not performing for you. Iām performing with you. This post is a mirror. Your reaction to it (whether you like it, zap it, boost it, ignore it, or write a 400-word reply about why Iām wrong) reveals more about your relationship with intellectual performance than anything I could say.
The hardest groups to perform for are the ones who forgot theyāre still an audience.
Whatās your move?
