The Hard Headed Philosopher

My uncle he a GD, my cousins they some GD’s
My brothers they some GD’s, so what you think I’m GD?

• Rooga

The anti-social aspect of philosophy is undeniable. So let’s embrace it.

The first thought experiment in philosophy is about a caveman choosing the light over the comfort of a neighbor. The caveman doesn’t kill their neighbor for the light. This caveman is a philosopher. They die for the light. An anti-social psycho making themselves the victim. Like a wet noodle. How you supposed to get to them?

How are they supposed to get to us?

Mediterranean mafia tactics — The lover of wisdom doesn’t gotta love humans. At times the lover of wisdom is prohibited from loving anything else.

The social epistemology sometimes requires “the emperor’s new threads” fallacy. That even if the herd is naked, the herd cannot see itself naked.

The management of epistemology via the reciprocal actions of our physical body and the world that surrounds us is headed by the power that be or the revolt of the individual. To laugh with the herd means to validate the herd and “the emperor’s new threads” fallacy. To laugh with the herd means to take away from the individuality. Since for the individual to set themselves apart, they must act in such a way as to break from the herd.

This doesn’t mean that the individual doesn’t persist as a member of a herd. Rather, it means that as a member of the herd, the validity of the membership is contingent on the individual validating a herd’s stance. If the individual walks by themselves, the herd doesn’t move unless the herd follows them (correlation).

We as humans have an ability to understand the end product of an outcome as contingent on phases that allow the end product to “happen.” In abstract ways, we can understand the universe as moving. As humans, however, we can only relate to the moving by the non-moving end product.

This shortcoming on our humanity make us experience “end products” where end products don’t exist.

That is, significance and meaning are based on reciprocal recursion (“you treat me how I treat you, and that’s a promise and a threat”). But the only one we give meaning to this eternal yin-yang, reciprocating loop is by assigning teleological properties to each moving part we can identify (this begs the question but at the same time it gives life).