<p>Name-dropping conversations (or conversations referring to famous people’s ideas without naming who those people are) should not be considered intellectual. Such conversations usually just consist of regurgitated knowledge being spewed back and forth. True intellectuality is original thinking on the spot, even if it’s said in the most inarticulate, ghetto way possible (not saying that ghetto is inarticulate… just giving a hypothetical example here). It could also arise in very ordinary conversations (linking a video game to Aristotle is not intellectual… that’s just forced thinking influenced by the culture you were raised in. the fact that this is even considered “intellectual” [whereas linking a video game to hip hop is not] is an insult to people whose educational cultures are different).</p>