526. The Difference Between Genuine-Intellectuals And Pseudo-Intellectuals
This is my personal, subjective opinion:
The difference between genuine and pseudo intellectuals is their subjective identity. Those cognitive capacities, which are generally attributed as to be those needed for intellectuality only exist in human brains, not in any animal.
The genuine intellectuals identify with these cognitive capacities as the essence of their person, they identify with what is only typically human, they identify with the cognitive distinction as not being animals.
The pseudo-intellectuals identify as animals with special additional cognitive abilities.
In both cases, the subjective identity includes the actual self and the ideal self.
I define an intellectual man as someone, who experiences and considers sexual activities as a dull, but unavoidable banality not worth wasting time and effort on it. His cognitive needs for intellectual, cultural and creative pursuits and activities are so predominant, that in comparison he considers physical stimulation by food and sex as unattractive and unimportant.
He is aware and in peace with the body's needs to be healthy and to keep the brain in the best possible functional state to ascertain the joy of intellectual pleasures.
Such an intellectual copes with his physical needs for homeostasis in a way, that does not hurt women's dignity. The cognitive basis of his way of life includes all aspects and thus also his attitude towards women and his awareness and interest concerning how women experience his behavior.
He never commodifies or objectifies a woman. He restricts his needs for homeostasis to non-damaging and non-abusive interactions. He accepts a fair exchange, where he fulfills a woman's needs for being an exclusive companion for shared intellectuality in a monogamous arrangement.
An intellectual man focuses his reaction to the perception of his dishomeostasis on finding such a companion and on treating her with dignity, appreciation and respect. The homeostation inside the relationship enables him to be not effected by any sexual stimuli from any third party.
Instead of being triggered by pornography or by any other stranger's sexual intrusion into his perception, he just gets annoyed or he does not even notice it.
He is not or little susceptible to such triggers to animal instincts, instead he is very perceptive to the attraction of a woman's mind and personality.
Genuine intellectual men identify as their cognition, while they are aware of the necessity of some instincts to enable the survival of their brain. But they do not see themselves as animals, they identify with all those cognitive capacities, which only humans have, but animals do not.
Genuine intellectual men are not driven by urges to commodify women by a blurred brain oblivious of what they are doing. Their clear brain enables them to be free to use their cognition to be considerate and responsible.
By the definition above I am describing a rare minority of men, because I am looking for a man as a partner. If I would define women in an analogous way, the definition would be different. While women lack the biological urge for proactive sexual homeostasis, they are more prone to be driven by the biological urge to procreate, which then lures them to comply with being abused by men's urges. So genuinely intellectual women are childfree, because they experience raising children as dull, boring and unappealing.
Pseudo-intellectuals share with genuine intellectuals the cognitive capacity to enjoy intellectual pursuits. But they are afflicted with so much animal instinctive urges, that these urges partially deactivate or blur their cognition in their treatment of women. Whenever their instincts are triggered, this effect is stronger then their cognition.
When pseudo intellectual jerks objectify women, they are not any better than moronic jerks. For the suffering of an abused woman, it makes no difference, if the jerk is always a moronic animal. or if he is a brilliant man all the time in all other aspects of life, but turns into a moronic animal only whenever interacting with a woman. Their cognition is dysfunctional, whenever they fail to recognize the damage done by the objectification of women.
Pseudo-intellectuals accept to be animals, they are comfortable when identifying with their instinctive urges and their entitlement to follow them. They even consider their most primitive instincts as something valuable, because they subjectively experience it as pleasure, independent of the cost for the victims. They do not value cognition by itself, only as a tool to serve their instincts.
Prototype 1 is Sartre. While he wrote philosophical texts of high value, which were mostly independent of his primitive instincts, in his personal behavior, he was nothing more than a jerk and a pseudo-intellectual. He and Beauvoir could have been the model of a monogamous companionship of two caring and exclusively bonded partners. They could have been the ideal intellectual couple.
Instead they both left behind them an insensitively cruel trail of hurt, abused and objectified women and men. He was a jerk, because he was ruled by his most primitive instincts feeling entitled to abuse any woman, whom he could manipulate into compliance. Beauvoir imitated him. She was at least his equal as a jerk, because she most probably had not the same biological proactive urge for homeostasis, as men have due to their biology, but she was as abusive as a man.
Prototype 2 is Casanova. Sartre wrote intellectual texts, which were not under the influence of his affliction, he became an animal only when abusing women. Casanova was even worse. His intellectual capacities were never free to be used for their own sake and benefit, they were reduced to be only a tool dominated by his instincts. He used all his cognitive abilities to serve his instinctive goals of acquiring supply for his never ending urge to abuse. And his cognition was so blurred, that he misinterpreted his abuse as beneficial to women. Some pseudo-intellectuals are very dangerous.
My mindmate to be found is a genuine intellectual according to my definition and he agrees with this definition.
