/lit/ - Literature

It has a lot to do with how secure people are with themselves and their relationship to their world. Certain people throughout time always seem to pop up that have such a seemingly irrational discomfort with accepting reality. They are the ones who have bequeathed the colorful vocabulary and language used to express such insecurity. The said language might make them seem intelligent and their work significant, but that is the fault of those who are easily impressed by verbose mental gymnastics. Then there are those who know about how some people are impressed by verbosity and long works, then use that knowledge to exploit those same people with works of their own crafted for the specific purpose of influencing. So that is what philosophy is -- a mixture of the above.

The philosophy that can be seen as a foundation for anyone feeling insecure, in my opinion, can be found in the single statement of René Descartes: "I think, therefore I am." Ponder it for like, a few seconds, and you'll realize it to be an objective truth. I'm dead serious. I used to read many books, and I can say from experience that it is all, as you suspected, mostly nonsense.

Accept reality as it is. That is all.