/lit/ - Literature

>>7948644

This is (as illustrated pretty clearly by the belligerent and visibly thoughtless responses) pretty much one hundred percent true. It makes a few implications that are less than true (other things have more meaning than philosophy, rational application is the height of worth) but the core statement is absolutely accurate: Philosophy has no visible practical application and, thus, most people have no use for it. It's esoteric, byzantine and frequently deals at great length with things most people never even think about. Philosophy is full of angry, neurally atypical outcasts who strive for a coat of vindication to paint over their inability to interface with everyone else. Philosophy forces painfully, irrationally and even viciously logical truths into the field of view, and many people wonder why something so light is being moved with such force when they already knew it was there and they rather liked where it was.

Many of the epiphilactic moments of philosophy are self-evident: the cruelty of man, the ennui of what passes for a soul, the deep, coruscating vine of our nervous system and its corded embrace with every higher function. No one truly believes all humans are always kind, everyone clings desperately to the search for meaning and there is no person who has not felt their visceral need well up behind their hands.

Philosophy is full of people who stand on a box and scream 'the sun is bright' while everyone else just looks at the ground because they know it hurts their eyes.