Mar 6 • General discussion
Philosophy is not for just anyone. Yet it is now a necessity for everyone.
When you start to think everything starts to hurt. Philosphy is the practice of defining the properties which make up reality. In order to do this you have to break appart your current model of reality. When you wake up, you look at your bed and know that it is a bed, you look at your clock and knows it is a clock. Everything makes sense because reality as you percive it is in line with your cognitive model of what reality is.
When you begin to question that cognitive model, you are forced to break your understanding apart, in effect your perception and cognitive model of reality are no longer in line, you end up in a painful position where you can’t trust anything or anyone for a while, before taking the old pieces and new pieces and constructing a new, larger one. Making you feel content for a while, before doing it again, bringing more suffering and confusion. This process takes up a ton of mentall energy and distracts you from your purpose as a human being in society. If you just accepted that you are ignorant and are content with it you could instead focus on contributing to your community and putting food on the table for your family. Bringing actuall happiness. To yourself and others.
But today. Ignorance will bring you to suffering yourself and inflicting suffering on others, without question. All throughout human history, not much changed over the course of hundreds of years. Through that slow change, culture would be formed by what worked best in the enviorment. You understood what your purpose was, even as a child. You contribute to society at large by your proffesion which has been inhearited through generations, your proffesion would make you money or create something of value which can be traded which made you able to contribute to your family, have kids for yourself and continue the cycle. The ambitous ones had to suffer a lot in these times. But that is a choice made by someone that is strong and individual. It is not a forced position.
Today. The world has changed so much in such a short time that there has been no time for a culture to be formed to survive and find happiness in it.
You have to go through deep philosphical conversations with yourself in order to stay away from unhealthy food, excesive internet use, brainrot, porn, making ai your bff, isolation from the seemingly hostile society, etc. There is no playbook to follow. There is no current culture which has the answer. Everyone has to break their reality appart on their own, suffer in confussion and hope they come to a conclussion or just kill themselves. This results in the people that are yet to find an answer or have given up on finding an answer either being extreemly hostile to each other or being overly accepting of degenerate behaviour, It’s hard to find an enviorment where people don’t constantly compete with each other or where people don’t form degenerate circle jerks to cope with reality. There are no loving communities anymore. It’s almost impossible to find even one person fitt to construct a loyal relationship with, where the win of the other person feels satisfying to oneself because you love them and want the best for them
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Philosophy is not for just anyone. Yet it is now a necessity for everyone.
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