Originally I thought philosophy as a discipline was basically so far up its own ass as to be useless, then I took one or two philosophy classes and had some genuine interest, then I got politically engaged and read more philosophy outside of a classroom environment, and ultimately decided my original feeling was mostly correct.
I feel like every time I go down a philosophy rabbit hole I’m getting on a train to go to some destination only to realize after a few circuits that I stepped into a carousel.
The only exception being dialectical materialism because it destroys and remakes itself constantly as the world around it shifts.
Instead of trying to pigeonhole and describe the world in a system, why not just have the system be the world as it is? Apply the scientific method you fools.
I feel like every time I go down a philosophy rabbit hole I’m getting on a train to go to some destination only to realize after a few circuits that I stepped into a carousel.
The only exception being dialectical materialism because it destroys and remakes itself constantly as the world around it shifts.
This is by design. You really think the ruling class would actually teach people how to actually analyze and change the world? Better to mislead the intelligentsia into getting stuck in mental carousels.
Totally agree on dialectical materialism, though there is no such thing as a universally accepted scientific method. I say this as a scientist working in a technical field: science in capitalism is ripe with contradiction.
