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may this be the year of the snob.

in defense of pretension. may this be the year of the snob. ayan artan Jan 08, 2025 30,519 690 9,866 Share corpses walk among us. they might look like you and i but in truth, they are contaminated by a disease that has turned them into empty shells, mannequins masquerading as people. richard hofstadter had a word for this sickness- anti-intellectualism- but i call it the death of our nafsaad . of our person-hoods. my mother says that i came out of the womb reading. every significant moment in my life is irrevocably linked to some form of art. my teenage years, filled with self-questioning and

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