[b]Existential Comics
Philosophy is important because without it we’d have to leave it up to scientists to figure out the meaning of life, and it would probably end up being a bunch of nerd shit.[/b]
I know: God forbid!
Advice to philosophy students: you aren’t Ludwig fucking Wittgenstein. Stop trying to solve philosophy, and just try to understand what the main questions are, and why.
This one: How ought one to live in an essentially absurd and meaningless world that ends in oblivion? New thread maybe?
Free speech: saying something.
Censorship: saying something criticising that thing.
More free speech: saying something criticising that criticism.
And then it’s turtles all the way down.
Here is my critique of contemporary culture: it is bad.
Not to mention getting worse.
Left unity will only ever happen when all the leftists factions learn to come together and hate themselves as much as they hate each other.
Right unity too.
And then the centrist examined both sides and wisely proclaimed: “everyone seems pretty pissed off, so the best course of action must logically be to change nothing.”
Phil Ochs wrote a song about that.