Maybe I Have "Hidden Intellectualism"

In the enlightening essay "Hidden Intellectualism," Gerald Graff brings a valid point about the acquisition of education and a different approach to becoming more intellectual. Graff supports his argument from a first person point of view in which he goes into detail about his reading interests and how they lacked "educational qualities." However it was not that he was an anti-intellectual but instead he was gaining intellectualism by other means. He also points out that while he was trying to balance between proving he was smart and being tough, that he started to gain even more intellect. I thought that his points were interesting because they are things I can relate to. Even to this day I am more in tuned with an argument about sports or some popular culture. However, I always considered these just to be novelty type arguments that didn't really have anything to do with intellect. His main points about seeing interests through "academic eyes" reminds me of one of my favorite writers, an essayist named Chuck Klosterman. Klosterman writes predominately on pop culture but he does so with such an intellect that the reader can't help but think a little differently after reading his work. I would add to this essay by going into my own examples of gaining intellect through seemingly irrelevant arguments and also use some of Klosterman's examples.