Comment by saraid216

> in fact, I realise now that I've been guilty of the odd middlebrow dismissal myself

This isn't as bad as you think it is. This kind of dismissal is a bit like adolescence; you engage in it as a part of mental growth. Every strong thinker has gone through it at some point, and probably regresses to it with some frequency. You hopefully grow past it, but you do go through it.