Is philosophy a bore? Talk to any philosopher, (one that’s not
dead) and you may be simultaneously bored and offended. Who else can drone on
so long about one idea? Who else can manage to link all ideas in a single
sentence? – (a very long sentence..) What’s the point of all that thinking
anyway? Wouldn’t it be better just to get on with life and stop thinking about
it for heaven’s sake?
But if there were more philosophers in the world, wouldn’t it be a
more reasonable place? Wouldn’t we be more likely to begin understanding a few
things? (What’s with all the questions? – Ah ha! ...we’re being little
philosophers ourselves..) Where philosophy thrives, so too do other expressions
of thought. Like art. And music.
Think of it.. our modern philosophers are often our musicians.
They sing their thoughts to us in poetic verse, shout it to us in prolonged
raving, croon it, whisper it, scream or yodel it – and we get it. Sometimes.
Imagine. Imagine not being allowed to think. Ideas are as natural
to human imagination as breathing. Any authority which disallows personal thought
is in fact cutting off oxygen to human development. That’s tantamount to lobotomising
humanity; trimming off all but one philosophy of life, and that dreamt up by a
very small contingent of, (dare I think it), narrow-minded individuals.
We might as well all be asleep..
Unthinkable.
