On Giving People A Burden To Carry

[OH MY WORLD!]

Sorry life is such a misery for you Keith. But keep that to yourself, not nice to try and draw others into your blue funk.

[Udayana]

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Socratic philosophy is a weird poison or defect, whereby that life reflects on itself, which it isn't "supposed to do" -- the usual reaction to it is to lash out. It's a kind of intellectual mutation that robs life of its worth. Honest philosophy is poisonous to the opinion of life, and maybe even to life itself.

I think philosophy is always going to be confined to a few "defective" individuals in that way, unless the intellectual landscape of the human race changes for some reason. So people will keep on doing what they do.

There is nothing that life is "supposed to do" or not supposed to do, similarly there is nothing defective about life reflecting on life, in many ways it is inevitable. If you go far enough you end up at the beginning, just like an ant climbing an Escher staircase. There is no good place to stop.

[Shaker]

... is that your opinion isn't the only one available.