It’s really annoying when someone tries to get super philosophical but has the shallowest take. On the other hand, not everyone has taken philosophy courses and what I consider “Descartes 101” may actually be something new and eye opening to them so dismissing them would make me the pretentious gatekeeper.

Anyways, I mostly agree with you. Like Scrubbles said, there are some that truly deserve it.

Yes, it’s dismissive.

And sometimes that’s appropriate.

Though sometimes it’s annoying as hell.

Personally I use it when someone jumps into a conversation headfirst full of psychobabble or obviously really trying to come off as deep. I’ll agree it’s used stop much, but man some people really deserve it too