We’re About to Witness An Intellectual Boom
By: Adalyn Brielle
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Ever since the pandemic struck, I have delved into subjects that I have never tasted before: philosophy, science, classical music, and art, not because I had a desire to explore them, but because I have genuinely run of out things to do during the ever-changing levels of lockdown that governments have enforced upon us.

Every passing week, it’s becoming increasingly hard to fill my day. I’ve met a couple of friends in bars, been on walks, played sports, but, ultimately, the awkwardness of these activities has left me scarred. I have lost the will, the urge, the energy to go outside. Instead, I would rather ponder, sitting inside.

It’s ironic, though, that I’ve learned more about the world, how things work, how people work, by evading human contact, staying indoors, and, in the words of the notorious self-help guru, Tai Lopez, obtaining KNOWLEDGE.

After months of diving into newfound curiosities and interests, I’ve never possessed a greater plethora of ideas, knowledge, and understanding. It’s like I’m living through the Age of Enlightenment: Pandemic Edition, and it’s all because I made the switch to an intellectual. Every day in lockdown has become a blessing in disguise, an intellectual catchup, reversing the years that popular culture has corrupted my once feeble mind. My revived thirst for knowledge has given me purpose, a reason to make every second that I’m enveloped within this weird climate count.

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This weekend alone, I’ve mastered the phonetic alphabet, studied the works of philosopher Francis Bacon, and analyzed various economic collapses from the 1718 Mississippi Bubble to the 1987 Black Monday flash-crash. I watched three entire series of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire without breaking a sweat. For the first time ever, I got a question right on Only Connect. I used to mock University Challenge contestants, now I’m jealous.

I admit, before the pandemic struck, I too fell for the crushing stigma of being an intellectual. In the guise of popular culture, you were seen as uncool, nerdy, and reclusive. You were marginalized, forgotten. Knowing things outside the technocracy somehow became controversial. But as it turns out, there’s more to life than worshipping the Kardashians.

COVID-19 has changed our perception. It has reshaped the way we think about ourselves and those around us. Now, we don’t give a damn, and it’s brilliant. More than ever, we care less about our appearance and what other people think of us, and we sense that others are thinking the same. We hold no insecurity, no anxiety, when rejecting invitations, attending corporate meetings via zoom calls, even buying groceries in our pajamas. The new normal is a tense yet relaxed atmosphere.

And although COVID-19 has also created deep, renewed, prejudicial wounds that will take a while to heal, let’s look on the bright side. Some barriers have been broken down, and one of them has been to openly express yourself as an intellectual. There’s never been a better time to just sit down and think. The pandemic is the ultimate catalyst for an intellectual boom within society, and you can be part of it.

It’s the perfect moment to bring out your repressed intellectual self and embark on a quest for life-changing wisdom and knowledge that will, hopefully, help you and those you spur to prosper in the future, post-pandemic world.

As Niklas Gokë says, “Don’t tolerate smart-shaming and embrace who you are.” The world needs an intellectual revival. Step aboard. Be part of it. If it happens, it’s going to happen now. The intellectualist uprising has only just begun.