straightblunt's definitions

pseudo-wisdom

Some crap about "consciousness", "the universe", reality is just an "illusion", and all that other New Age spiritual crap. It is usually practised by people that don't have the intellectual capacity to understand true wisdom found through the study and challenge of Philosophical concepts and ideas. It is basically a blind and dumbed-down belief in more complex and thought out ideologies, but without putting in the work to actually obtain any significant kind of knowledge directly beneficial to the individual or society itself. It is also often used to exploit these stupid people for profitable purposes.

"Have you read the new Deepak Chopra book?"
"Fuck no. That shit is pseudo-wisdom bullshit. I just bought Aristotles Necomacean Ethics."

by straightblunt June 11, 2014