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		jwhitlark on June 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism? Or sheer bloody mindedness. If you read "War and Peace" to improve your mind, more power to you. If you read it because you think it will make you better that someone else, you're just engaging in more social signaling.

Apocryphon on June 8, 2011 [–]

I don't think people ever do that. Not with War and Peace, anyhows.

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