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I have come to the conclusion philosophy is dumb
Removed by modI see people here all the time telling people to read theory and shit, so I do
Yeah lots of philosophers are "smart people" because they seem to pen a lot more introspective and interesting ideas than most other writers but basically everything I read always ended in some self circular argument rooted in biases and assumptions that just seems like nonsense that someone came up with to beat back the crushing existential fear they felt as they grew older and just buried it in 1000 page long rants that if you happen think are like the ravings of a madman you just aren't "smart" enough to get it
Seriously, dialectics is a bunch of white gibberish, just masturbating words to sound smart because none of the poors who might have a different perspective and more grounded ideas were born into the right family to be able to have an education to tell you why you are a pedantic insufferable asshole
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Most of them did so without understanding who [insert bougie European name] was tho
Anyone who tried gave up. If he's got good ideas then he fucking sucked so goddamn bad at communicating them. Just go with Marx, Hegel is a navel gazing nerd.
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If this is a wrecker, they're marginally better than the last ones. They can spell "dialectics".
Even if it's not a wrecker, it's a terrible take lol. "Dialectics is white people shit" lmao OK. Hooking up a turbine to Mao's body and reading him this to power all of Beijing.
nonsense that someone came up with to beat back the crushing existential fear they felt as they grew older and just buried it in 1000 page long rants
Everyone you're dissing here would would just point to this and assert, "While you say this to antagonize my position, I think it's exactly correct."
What are you, a truly disciplined master over your own existential terror? Are you separate and above all us peons who can't get over the antagonism and alienation of existence?
Just admit that struggling to read shit makes you insecure... and understand that you cannot effectively critique something which you do not take seriously. I know this is prob a wrecker, but still
Read stuff by people who did things :fanon:
Also, if you're trolling, plagiarize Al-Ghazali so you'll have better post titles
Being a white supremacist while not thinking white supremacy is good hours.
Dialects is trying to take something obvious and intuitive for a lot of people but neglected in most formal thinking because a lot of bourgeois social science is alienated and abstracted from reality. It's basically trying to reconcile humanity's ideas with the fact that we live in a material reality independent of our ideas. If you're not trying to do scientific social analysis, it's not going to seem particularly useful.
Dialectics does give me an existential kind of fear like, I'm not smarter than other people, my material conditions led me to my conclusions. But then my brain gets into a loop where I realize that I can't convince anyone, that people will only be convinced when their material conditions force them to, and that might not happen in this country until after I'm dead, so I just curl up in the fetal position thinking about how I was born a hundred years too early to see any kind of real change, and the one country I do see any kind of real change gets shit on by even the most apolitical dweeb here so I've got no one IRL to talk to about basic as shit but I can't even make myself feel better by calling them stupid because it's really just my material conditions that led me to my conc- :agony-soviet:
Philosophy is dumb because it reflects all of us dummies in society. Bunch of Eggheads trying to figure out how to make dumb ape ideas compatible with one another and argue about why that's impossible, etc.
Unfortunately it is useful for understanding social systems.
