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17607020 No.17607020 [Reply] [Original]

>Over 90% of all threads on /lit/ are questions directed at the viewer.
>Virtually no threads are invitations to dialogue or expression of the self.
What are the philosophical ramifications of this?

>> No.17607034

>>17607020
Soulless anons who don't have a life.

Unironically, they need to get out into the world, out away from a screen, and love it. Enough to come back and bring a living thought.

>> No.17607056

>>17607034
You haven't provided an insight into the philosophical ramifications. You've simply reiterated the implied state of affairs in your own words.

You, anon, are one of the soulless mass.

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>>17607020
The problem involved is that of loaded questions: questions which aren't truly questions because they demand the acceptance of some (usually controversial or inflammatory) proposition in responding to them.
Also, a distinction must be made between passive-aggressive questioning, which is essentially the demand that others investigate for you, and active inquiry which is personal movement that follows some important questionable proposition with other investigators.
The over-arching philosophical topic is that of questions, and to begin with this topic one needs to start with the question of questions: "what is a question?" Before I go further, I would like you to appreciate the strangeness of this question: it is literally a question questioning itself. I would like to suggest that this is extremely close to what self-awareness is: the self questioning itself, which means to throw the entirety of one's interpretation and understanding of the world into questionability. There is a self-undermining, or perhaps overcoming quality to this; an undoing of the self that makes it possible for the self to aspire towards not-itself.

What is a question? https://www.philosophersmag.com/essays/186-what-is-a-question
What is a question about questions?
Have questions been ignored in the history of philosophy because they were imperceptible as anything but absences - lack of answers, rather than objects of affirmation?
Why is asking loaded questions the best way to low-effort troll on 4chan?
Is this related to the effectiveness and popularity of the Q-anon cult nonsense?

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17607191

>What is the philosophy of questions REALLY about?
This story about a "question-collector" and an "answer-collector" is the best introduction I can think of: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

>> No.17607195

>>17607056
Fuck you faggot, you expect every statement to be a masterpiece? The main problem is that threads are no longer original.

And now I realise I've been duped and did not miss the ironic ramifications of the Op.