| Philosophy is mostly wordcellery. Hard sciences are shape rotation. One is basically stochastic parottism, and the other is dealing with reality. Philosophy has no end-game or practical applications. You can make anything up, and so long as enough souls latch onto it via pattern recognition, you have achieved memetic reproduction. With hard sciences, you can talk all you want, but if your hypotheses are consistently disproven, only the untrained and deranged will latch onto your ideas. There is nothing to penetrate in philosophy. It's not a reflection of reality, but a reflection of the people it captivates. It's very little different than music, or any other sort of entertainment. Dare I call it an art. In that case, I would say its recent interpretations are lacking. A personal aside: much of this era's approach to philosophy reminds me of Fabianism -- wretched, cowardly, and completely superfluous to living an integrated life. |