>>24382800
>You've been there and seen first hand?
No, but
1) the philosopher was talking to his students (see picrel).
2) till after the middle ages it was famous to read books aloud (and discuss them in the meantime. See Confessions by St. Augustine)
3)Not directly related, but University as an institution was born from commentaries on Roman Law which were then compiled into books and then commented by the following generations. The commentaries were done by the professor interracting (i.e. being challenged) by his students. Famous quote by Irnerius is "I study by teaching". Which leads me to say that the Lyceum didn't really disappear. It's effectiveness was evident all throughout the Middle Ages.
>Yet, his critique is actually valid.
Says you, hypocritically. Go live in a forest, anon. No one keeps you on the mongolian basketweaving forum.
>Can your local grandpa rile up a whole country with his speeches?
Appeal to majority. Which means that his texts weren't that deep, since so many normies agreed with him. Also, the bulk of the marketing was done by Goebbels. If you actually think that a 700 pages long non-fiction book could rile up a country, you are overestimating the common people.
>disagrees with you.
Too bad that Confucius worked as a bureaucrat, and after that kept travelling and teaching, trying to find some ruler that will accept him as an advisor.
Laozi, who, according to the legend, told the whole book to a farmer?
The prince (I'll repeat, the prince, who got every possible teacher at his feet and was a spoiled brat who experienced every possible social gathering possible) who created buddhism running around and plagirizing the schizos that he could find and only after that, sat down and started "meditating" (i.e. actually teaching to his followers that were constantly orbiting around him).
Do you think the guy who introduced Zen buddhism was smart? He who cut an arm just for the weirdo who stared at the wall 24/7 to talk to him?
It's very nice that you gave only stuff from a historical period which is very, very poorly documented. You are trying to disprove my thesis with stuff from legends. The funny thing is that even with all the issues that you get from trying to prove anything regarding these historical figures, legends prove all these figures to be very involved in society.
>If you can't see how isolation is a valid rational reaction to the world, then you're not that intelligent in the first place.
Writing this right after talking about the stuff that the normies consider le deep because le exotic. Literally the Guenon meme.
>The higher the IQ, the less cunt you get.
Woah, it's almost as if smart people think that quality>quantity.
Maybe, just maybe, having a higher IQ increases your chance to land better pussy.
Fun fact: being a social retard doesn't make you smart.
>>bohooo, I read books and can't get women
Are you quoting yourself?

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