Is there anything that can compete with art or poetry in generating the most pretentious self identity?
There is one major discipline that can compete with the arts in generating the most pretentious self identity and that is psychologists and psychoanalysts. Also food and drink writers and restaurant critics are in the running. Architects have a knack of turning their most boring open and covered spaces in to statements of pretentiousness. Educationalists are also guilty of this, in their strange jargon they have made students/pupils in to Golems for the teacher to form in to adults in some transference of God’s powers to the average secondary school teacher.
