[b]Existential Comics
People are really out there vigorously advocating for free speech, but at the same time saying philosophy is useless. Like everyone should shout their opinions all the time, but under absolutely no circumstance should anyone examine these opinions seriously.[/b]
On the other hand, how seriously is too seriously?
Joe Biden: the only thing that can stop a bad old senile racist getting elected president is a good old senile racist getting elected president.
This time though it’s probably true.
a great philosopher is someone who can explain their dumbass idea so well that no one can even figure out why it was so dumb anymore
Well, not counting me of course.
[b]Philosophers who would most hate their modern fans:
- Nietzsche
- Marx
- Diogenes
- The rest of them because philosophers are all snobby pricks[/b]
In other words, all of the above.
when your boss says he thinks of the workplace like a family, he doesn’t mean like a group of people who take care of each other no matter what. he means like a patriarchal power structure where the children obey the parents no matter what.
But only 9 times out of 10.
Children really make the best philosophers. They have infinite curiosity and wonder, and they haven’t yet aquired any of the prejudices that close adult’s minds off from possibilities. The only real problem is that children are dumb as shit.
Not half as dumb as Kids though.