Philo-Logical

We are unable to fundamentally tolerate people abiding by a different philosophy.  Philosophy is now a commodity, instead of being an intensely private and personal thing as it should be.

   Philosophy has more become a quotation to show off knowledge.  There are various traditional sources and streams of philosophy.  Most, I believe have been pronounced by depressed and/or depressing Germans   Yes Germans who, lets be honest, have coined terms like Schadenfraude.  The feeling of sadistic pleasure derived from the misery of others.  Well, at least they were honest enough to acknowledge the phenomenon.  Germans produced so many philosophers and psychological pioneers, so, stands to reason they must have been a pretty screwed up lot.  After all, necessity is the mother of invention.

But back to the rant.  Philosophies are more like movies and songs to us.  We find one, a rare one and can't wait to thrust it on others.  And we are shocked, truly, deeply, to the molten-lava-of- pretentious-Facebook-sharing-outrage-dripping core of ourselves, when others do not have the taste for it.  And like these cultural offerings, philosophies are often accepted by people when they think it is a rare discovery made by them, on their very own - like some quasi-holy grail that they have tripped upon.

And for some strange reason, quite possibly because it is viewed more as a cultural commodity rather than a personal coda, people have set and fixed notion of what consists of philosophy and what are the sources and fonts of philosophical wisdom.  Quite ironic, given the basis of philosophy is to question things fundamentally, and often just mentally (a few times out loud too, at the risk of being labelled crazy by crazy people).

So this is a story of how we lose track of the plot, till the point that you view life as an Akshay Kumar movie, with no plot, keep your thinking hats aside and copy paste cliches and templates into sequences to stitch your own twisted philosophy, "borrowed", quite originally, from a few fixed sources.  (to be honest, that last line might have been more of an angry indictment of Akshay Kumar movies than philosophical tastes, but so what!!).  Seeking philosophy is a true quest, not a novelty treasure hunt with fixed rules and made up limits.  This is basically me philosophizing on the tenets of philosophy and I want you to abide by them.  No questions asked.