Fare-fookin’-well dude.

You might be “intelligentsia” if you have a humanities degree and nothing else; if your idea of intellectual rigor doesn’t go beyond elementary logic 101; if your notion of high culture is excessive verbiage or if you feel a need to use fancy words to express commonplace ideas; if you think patronization instead of argument counts as a legitimate reply.

OTOH, you might be “corean” if you’re kyopo, and you’re a guy, and you’re emotional, and write in curt, l.a. gangsta style.

You’re neither of the above, wangkon.

Anyway, I read that comments page about the free tickets. I didn’t see much of a problem with it except for 1 comment by 1 particular poster. Such a comment couldn’t have been produced by a less practiced asshole, but that’s just my opinion.

Anyhowz, Netizen Kim is quite correct that the bizzare use of “intelligentsia” as an insult or derogatory label is a peculiar American thang, a long USA populist tradition stretching back at least to when Alexis de Tocqueville noticed it in the 1830s. It’s currently a favor of right-wing Republicans… Recall how they attacked Kerry for knowing how to speak a foreign language, enough that he had to try to hide that ability. Despise intelligent people, and you get presidents like GWB, wars like Iraq…

“Intelligentsia” refers to liberal uppity minorities educated by the damn Jews in elite universities, both of whom are the leading causes of the demise of this Great Nation of Ours, by God.

“Corean” refers to damn inbred ingrate wacko-gooks who spit in the face of America despite being liberated from Nips and Commies and not having a pot to piss in 60 years ago…who could probably benefit from a good character-building combat tour in Iraq.

A: “Good-bye, cruel world!”
B: “Sez who?”

Mark was the dude with the avatar of the WWII-era GI holding up a cup of hot, steaming coffee and the caption, “How about a nice cup of STFU?”

I wish him well, but it’s kinda sadly ironic, that his avatar was the epitome of cold-shouldered cynicism, but he gave up on this blog because of comments in a similar vein, and now he’s getting the ultimate sendoff—Mark who?