Recently someone shared with me her annoyance with those pseudo-philosophers who, in their obnoxiously uninformed way, would dare waste everyone’s time arguing with a philosophy professor. Who are you, oh man, when compared to the boundless wealth of knowledge that is me, a philosophy professor?
But what is it that makes one an authority on thought? Do those who think about thought really have a hegemony over credible conclusions? Naked thought, thought without hooks in the tender meat of reality, is wasted. The perpetuation of the love of wisdom should come from those immersed in actual events, those who use thought to accomplish life, not by sophists who would spill their seed wastefully on the soil with no intention of bearing fruit.
The same goes for theologists. Did you know that there are theologists that don’t believe in God? Why should I listen to them? And sociologists – since we don’t like data these days – how is that a profession? Everyone who lives in society should be observing society. That’s how you learn how to live in society, after all. If not for medicine, psychology would be the same thing.
Remove someone from the reality of their field for long enough, and their opinion loses its weight. To go straight out of college and into philosophy (however one goes “into philosophy”) creates a useless closed loop of old thought. It’s one thing to regurgitate the musings of thinkers past, but how do you expect to break new ground without sowing your thought patterns in the world and watching what grows?
Professional philosophers. Bah! A pox on you.
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