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You can't be a philosopher and posit "most philosophy is non-sense" at the same time. If language is the product of ephemeral transactions between subjective people on a need to communicate basis, then does it possess the objective rigor needed to accurately investigate the true essence of the world? If philosophy can only be expressed with language, where does that leave you? Setting aside Wittgenstein while you work on your philosophy may do the trick.

I've been listening to a lot of George Carlin recently. I feel much of his late best work is linguistic absurdism. If we are to take Carlin's assertion that most of us are dumb and society is glued together by bullshit, then so would be our language. If that is the case, then Carlin's stand up is the perfect example of taking language for what it truly is and applying objective rigor and logic to it (which he explicitly claims to be doing in many of his routines), only to reveal the true essence of the world. If anything, Carlin proved that reality is just as absurd as the language we use to describe it.