Teenagers
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Deep Defined
The following words were first inspired by a very common trend Im noticing. It seems to me that everyone (or at least every teen) today is a philosopher. Yes, its true. Every teen in society has spent one hundred times their own life on remote mountain peaks observing and thinking. Every teen has explored the beginnings
of time to the end of fate. Every teen has been formally introduced to Socrates, Neitzche, Sartre and so many more and surpassed them all. Yes, the alpha and omega is, indeed, in my generation. Knowledge beyond knowledge, power uncomprehensible to any human being! Especially authority figures and professionals!
Yet Ive never known a philosopher to concern themselves with such trivial matters. I was un aware that Plato used to secretely mock Aristotles toga behind his back, that Wilhelm and Hegel were friends one week and enemies the next, and that Sabucos friends truly thuoght she was rather promiscuous.
How uninformed I have been. Here I thought I was on a higher level than this shit that happens on a day to day basis. But it seems that true wisdom lies in being a crystal definition of a human being.
Because, these people are not philosophers. “Anyone can be a philosopher!” You shout! And yes, you are correct. Just as tomorrow
I can be a preist. A female priest who swears, believes in pre-marital sex and cheats at poker but a preist nonetheless. Anyone can be anything for a short period of time but I ask, is this truly becoming their target. No. They are merely an eumlation of something greater. Regurgitating “knowledge” does not mean that you are a philosopher, though it may mean you talk too much. Or so Ive been told. And tell me this, what is more human than wanting what you are not? To