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Name:<\/strong> Disgustingly educated.<\/p>\n Age:<\/strong> About 18 months.<\/p>\n Appearance:<\/strong> Gross.<\/p>\n Ah, gross from the Latin word <\/strong>grossus<\/strong><\/em>, meaning dense, bulky and unrefined.<\/strong> Oh God, not you too. What absolutely rubbish behaviour this is. You make me sick.<\/p>\n Because I happen to know things? <\/strong>No, because you go around rubbing it in everyone\u2019s faces. You know what you are?<\/p>\n At a push, based on context, I\u2019d wager that I\u2019m disgustingly educated.<\/strong> Exactly! Everyone\u2019s at it, you know. I\u2019ve had enough.<\/p>\n Enough of education?<\/strong> No, because it\u2019s not school or uni that makes you disgustingly educated. You get it from \u2013 shudder \u2013 wanting to improve yourself.<\/p>\n An example, please. <\/strong>In 2024, corners of Reddit started to fill up with guides on how to become disgustingly educated. Some were lists of improving books, nonfiction essays or old films.<\/p>\n So far so good. <\/strong>But now it\u2019s all over the place. Even TikTok is full of people telling users to read specific books if they want to boost their knowledge of Greek mythology or extinction cycles or emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n What\u2019s wrong with that?<\/strong> Because it\u2019s just reading books, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s something that people have managed to do for thousands of years without making a fuss, and now it\u2019s being rebranded by TikTokers as a sign of extreme cleverness.<\/p>\n Well, yes, but those old-timey people didn\u2019t have phones.<\/strong> Oh, I see. So this is less about being an autodidact and more about making a show of improving your attention span and impulse control by going offline for meaningful periods of time?<\/p>\n That seems about right.<\/strong> And the thing that\u2019s going to encourage that is videos of influencers telling you to read about ancient Egypt?<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be a snob.<\/strong> I\u2019m not being a snob. I\u2019m just worried that a trend like this going viral on something as shallow as TikTok will lead to a rise of pseudointellectualism. The achievement of actually knowing things is going to be superseded by a grim desire to simply look as if you know things for likes.<\/p>\n That\u2019s definitely a danger, but in this day and age it\u2019s a start.<\/strong> I guess you\u2019re right. Maybe it isn\u2019t such a bad thing. After all, you\u2019re disgustingly educated enough to know the etymology of the word \u201cgross\u201d.<\/p>\n Actually, I looked that up on ChatGPT. <\/strong>Oh. I guess the age of outsourcing disgusting intelligence to robots begins now.<\/p>\n Do say: <\/strong>\u201cNothing is cooler than being disgustingly educated.\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t say: <\/strong>\u201cI just Photoshopped a picture of me in a bikini and a mortarboard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name: Disgustingly educated. Age: About 18 months. Appearance: Gross. Ah, gross from the Latin word grossus, meaning dense, bulky and unrefined. Oh God, not you too. What absolutely rubbish behaviour this is. You make me sick. Because I happen to know things? No, because you go around rubbing it in everyone\u2019s faces. 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