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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i get this feeling of being like... constipated and angry at the same time when around people who've gone through any formal philosophy, you can't get through a single idea without them dropping eight different philosophers on you, and im just like YES BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK
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Academic philosophy skews heavy against original thought and towards scholastics, because original thinkers tend to be late to the party by at least a few decades. As a result, it does not attract and retain many original thinkers.
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There are original thinkers in philosophy, but they are harder to meet than original thinkers in physics or computer science, because the low hanging fruits that you can reap without deep formal skills may be mostly gone.
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