I understand that professional philosophy has its place in society but philosophers do tire me out sometimes I must say
We’ve all got our own philosophy I suppose. I’m certainly guilty of blathering on about how I think the world works. But there’s a lot of philosophical questions whose answers seem obvious to me if you just accept that multiple things can be true at the same time.
Like do things exist? What is a thing? Can existence be categorized? Is the universe made of things?
Like yes the universe is made of things and things are a human made concept that seems pretty obvious to me at least like how long do you have to sit in a room thinking to convince yourself that either there are no things or that there’s some inherent thing in the universe that makes it fit into our human boxes can you please touch grass
And yes perhaps my opinions on this are bogus and I’m completely wrong I’m completely open to that possibility but with the way modern philosophy is often communicated to the public it feels like they’re all just sitting in their offices smoking weed and asking if grass really exists instead of going out and touching the grass like yes grass is a human made mental construct and yes grass does exist you can go outside and touch it right now
And I want to reiterate that philosophy does have its place in society and all that like sure it’s good to have a group of people thinking about the nature of things but from an outside perspective sometimes it becomes difficult to understand what philosophers are doing all day. Like at the end of the day what’s the difference between people in Ancient Greece wondering if eyeballs project light and a guy with an iPhone asking if chairs actually exist like at what point will smashing a chair over your head convince you that it’s real by most definitions of that word