iPod

Acronym: Intellectual Pretender Orating Derivatives.

A person, often a student, who has not developed any unique intellectualisms but will bombastically offer plagiarised arguments and opinions, or repeat verbatim any number of literary quotes or philosophies without any real understanding of them.

Much like the actual iPod media device, which plays back music or video that has been stored on it, but does not create new media by itself, an iPod in the human sense, stores information, but does not have the propensity for the creation of unique intellectual opinion. Could also be described as a Faux-losopher.

The scene from Good Will Hunting between Will and Clark in the Harvard bar is a great example of Clark being an iPod.

Will: Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student; you just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'till next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you're going to be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year; you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization...

Clark: Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social...

Will: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is... that you dropped 150 grand on a f***in' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!

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