DAS PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy is the art of thinking. It’s not about arriving at any specific conclusions, but the process of refining and shaping thoughts itself.

There are a lot of ways to think about things, and thinking about things differently develops new neural pathways in your brain. 

While you may not agree with a certain conclusion, some of the sourcing, etc., understanding different philosophies gives you bits and pieces of logical frameworks that you can use later on in a situation that’s more relevant to you.

Much like a rock musician who doesn't intend to create blues music may study the blues to help develop their unique sound, you can study other people’s philosophies to help shape your unique perspective.

The only difference between philosophy and any other art is that it’s universally produced and consumed by all humans. Thus, it’s fundamentally the most powerful.

When other people's thoughts influence you, that's a philosophical exchange. And it's important to understand where different trains of thought of coming from and where they seem to be going.

The better you get at understanding and communicating within different perspectives, the more influence you have over the collective hivemind that is the human spirit.

A thought can transcend the language that it’s written in, jump off the page, and into your soul. The internet and ability to instantly translate anything gives people the ability to communicate powerful thoughts with billions of other people instantly.

And this is why no one teaches common philosophy. If people understood the power of our thoughts and our ability to communicate deep meaning to one another, we would be impossible to exploit.

As such, mainstream philosophy is all svunty academics gatekeeping the good stuff with a bunch of rich white dudes doing their best to logically justify being judgmental pieces of shit. 

Academic philosophy has become entrenched with our society’s needs for absolute answers to justify being shitty to each other, and the only people who get institutional recognition are those willing to comply and give the rulers the justifications they need.

Academia in general has become more about telling people what to think than how to think.

So instead of teaching philosophy like the diverse art that is, encouraging everyone to shape their own perspectives, they dogmatically assert what is the best form of reasoning and dismiss all the rest. 

A beautiful and essential art has been reduced to the justification for imperialism and general condescension.

And that's if you get exposed at all. Most people only see philosophy in college, and it's in the worst format possible for it. You follow some arbitrary curriculum designed for thousands of people, which is no way to learn such an intimate thing. 

Philosophy generally requires a Teacher and discourse for knowledge to become understanding.

Academia instead heavily favors certain political and socioeconomic outcomes based on the request of the state and corporate sponsors and forces everyone within the same understanding. 

How you think shapes your entire reality, and very few meaningful resources are provided for you to decide for yourself outside of systems such as this, which is incredibly dangerous for the stability of society.

Because as humans, we don’t experience reality, we experience our perception of it. No one can have an objective perspective, although you can test if one is more accurate to another relative to reality. 

Instead, our perception is subconsciously determined by our neural pathway availability and our current beliefs.

So when we condition all of society to think the same "objective" way, what we're really doing is conditioned everyone to have the exact same biases.

If we haven’t thought about something in a certain way before, or if we're not aware of some essential knowledge, we can totally miss things that are happening in the reality that we experience every day.  When all of society has the same biases, very, very obvious solutions to global catastrophes are totally ignored.

As such, you have more influence than you could have ever thought possible without the tools that philosophy offers you. Between freeing your own mind and being able to freely do the same for others, upskilling in philosophy is fundamental to upskilling anywhere else.

These skills aren’t just guidelines for morality or daily habits as philosophy is often reduced to today. It’s about giving your mind more food so it can be more useful for whatever you want to do.

Understanding different people’s perspectives, even if you disagree with them, helps you greatly. 

Not because it helps you address that perspective directly if you need to, though it does do that, but because neural pathway development is a very real thing. 

You can borrow perspectives to build your brain then give them back.

When we consume and create philosophy, we’re creating pathways that our brain can then use to process reality going forward. 

It’s not about accepting any conclusions, it’s about recognizing thought structures and nuance. 

In doing so, we give our brain more neural pathways and the ability to subconsciously and effortlessly understand situations and make decisions better.

I’m an omnist within a critical realism perspective. If you read though my subsection on this page, I’ll explain my current philosophy and what that means to the best of my ability.

But I bring it up here to say this; humans are dumb as shit. Even the smartest ones are just picking their preferred way to be stupid, and you absolutely have every right to do the same.

However, just as it’s rare for an artist to pick up a guitar or a brush and be a virtuoso without practice, you should consider studying some of the billions of people who came before you copy someone else’s style or fall into classic silly logical traps.

Philosophy helps you express your soul in ways that the most people possible can understand. And it helps you understand others in the same sense. It’s the root of all science, all study, and all society. 

I’m not afraid to rock a tinfoil hat, so I have no problem with saying that philosophy is hidden away from everyone for precisely this reason. It's made a fringe part of society specifically because of the fundamental power it gives everyone to express themselves and see through other’s bullshit.

Your philosophy is how you think. If you haven’t trained your mind properly or spent time ruminating on your own morality, you’re just skating through life with whatever bumpers society offers, which is currently terrifying consumer authoritarianism.

If you want to be able to see the paths out, not only for you, but for everyone else as well, you need to practice philosophy and train your minds.