Just me or is philosophy actually a complete shitshow? When I was younger I really wanted to major in philosophy because I thought it was "learning to think real good about abstract stuff", but eventually found out it was "quoting other famous people's stuff at each other"
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Generally I have an intuition that lots of things are made more complex than they need to be to gatekeeper knowledge and retain power. But it's really hard to know whether it's that or because of the complexity if you're not familiar with the source material.
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For example I once told a doctor about a pain in my elbow and explained the symptoms in a fair amount of detail, and then he said a complex word. I asked what it was, and he laughed and said it was just 'sore elbow' in Latin. It was his version of a dad joke.
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