A philosopher [?] at the mercy of History!?

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A human being who must have revenge not just on non-philosophers of the to-come, but also on potential philosophers of the to-come? Folks, my bemused dissatisfaction with these vaudevillians is at critical mass. Oh no.

Answer 1

VonHiggins....you know well that I have claimed to be a neophyte, and outright ignorant of philosophy. Your suggestion of a "white hot study" was taken much to heart. Please bear with me as I struggle to find the words I need to, not answer, but comment.

I have now read Plato...The Cave....a bit of Aurelius, a bit of Socrates, gotten a headache with Zeno and Anaxamenes, rejected the Sophists (though that may change with time and understanding) and laughed with Epicurus...however, to say any philosopher was "bad" for anything, or that any one of them was uneccessary...well....pardon my rudeness, that is simply stupidity posing as interest.

<shrug> why concern yourself....remember the old platitude, my friend..."laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone"

Answer 2

Philosophers, Prophets, Scientists, Intellectuals are individually symbolic of their creed. It is not the adversarial confrontation to be witnessed that is of greater concern to spectators and scholars of these noble arts, but the success of the samesaid to dispense the complex and intangible to the ordinate and novicial.

It is the nature of the beats that any individual, corporation and entity able to harness effectively intellectual property,  a power to form the thinking of the collective mind, will undoubtedly be plagiarised.

Natural and spiritually enriched tend to find great pleasure in the administration of word to the seeker of truth for the greater good. Other less unscrupulous antipathies tend to facilitate the advent of such an inspired individual for the procurement of personal gain and glory than any discernible service to mankind, greatly injurious to the former.

Many great minds, thinkers, visionaries have rarely gained credence let alone success in reformation, why?, because the parasitic plagiarist has a greater ardency and ambition that the good and noble suffering souls so compelled to pour forth their wisdom writ in blood upon the papyrus of tortured souls.

The philosophical, poetic, intellectual are invariably poor. The less than wise but fiercely and ruthlessly ambitious are stupendously rich. Propheting is indeed a non profit bloodletting ritual..