> His resolution is that the premise is false: most people, in fact, are not curious (as he establishes by redefining curiosity.)
Thus demonstrating that he's making an "intellectual argument".
People are curious, they're just not curious in the way that he thinks that they should be, which makes them, in his eyes, inferior. The article is his "proof" of their inferiority.
Thus demonstrating that he's making an "intellectual argument".
People are curious, they're just not curious in the way that he thinks that they should be, which makes them, in his eyes, inferior. The article is his "proof" of their inferiority.
Yes, those are sneer quotes.