Friday, January 18, 2008
Defining a term
Some of my fellow contemporaries have been throwing around the word, "mental masturbation." I would like to define this considering I believe I coined the term, but I may be wrong. I define it as an act of intellecutalism that is only done with the purpose of pleasuring yourself and not providing real knowledge to anyone else. These acts I feel often come up in academia. I may be wrong:)
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Are you talking about rationalization? I've seen some pretty good instances of this by people who want to justify their own apathy. For example I heard someone say that they don't feel bad for the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the Indian Ocean Tsunami because all of those people had decided to live on the coast.
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