i hate philosophy.

it's stupid. easily the biggest waste of time ever passed off as a subject in school. the logic behind it is grotesquely circular and, at the end of it all, utterly useless because, hey, it's all relative, right?


"And now that you've spent the last 10 weeks meitculously studying, theorizing, and debating this topic in order to arrive at your well thought out conclusion, you should know that it doesn't mean sh*t...Enjoy your summer!"

i mean, i can embrace it for the fact that, yes, it absolutely brings up a lot of important questions and ideas that should be considered and debated, but at the end of the day, it's all for naught because if you adhere to the principles of philosophy (namely the philosophical ideal of relativity), then everyone's right and the entire debate was a waste of time.

by adhering to their own principles, philosphers devalue their own beliefs. if everything's relative, then the opinions they've arrived at after, perhaps, years of study, debate and analysis are no more valid than this lady's...


The Plato of our generation
it's infuriating. what's the point of asking these important questions if any conclusions or opinions derived from the philosophical debates surrounding them are debunked by the very nature of philosophy itself? answer: there isn't one.

there are no definitive statements. there are no answers. there is no truth. it is a "love of wisdom" only so much as its followers love to consider themselves wise based solely on the fact that they've created an illusion of life for themselves in which they've made it impossible to be proven wrong. but refusal to accept your falsities and misconceptions as such does not make them correct, and it sure as hell doesn't make you wise. it makes you that annoying kid on the playground who would stick his fingers in his ears and say "NAH NAH NAH NAH NOT LISTENING!!" when you politely tried to explain it was your turn to ride on the swings. you know...the one you wanted to punch in the face...

According to Metaphysical Philosophy, you may not even exist, so it can't be your turn! Neener neener neeeeeener!

sooooo, yeah. i'm pretty much over this bull. after this quarter's political philosophy class, i don't plan on ever returning to this subject ever again because, frankly, even talking about it for this long is making me want to pull my hair out.

and let's face it...i'm nothing without my hair.

......or am i?......

mjl.