Philosophy

## Philosophy is unwanted

The great thinkers of ancient Greece and the great analysts of the modern western world used their minds to define what human life is. But the capacity for life then and now has changed drastically with the help of science, technology, and politics. Imagine Diogenes was alive when WW-II was happening and 60,000 were dying every day. How pissed off would he be? he would have just wanted to die of seeing the black and white pictures of piles of emancipated bodies bulldozed into pits, or he would want to commit suicide on hearing the fate of the blood-draining suffering of the 2000 children in Krasny-Bereg, Belarus.

Things have changed since then. was it? like them who did not know the future, we, do not know the minds of them, who lived in the past? anyway, the point is. The facts then and now are more and different. A 1-year-old child then and now would have been the same, but Plato would have never witnessed how crazy the child can go after a small piece of plastic that is painted blue and with the number "1" inscribed on its sides, and has a face in its front, the child yells "Thomas!"

Philosophy has become useless to the common folk because it is considered "wasteful thinking". I do not need philosophy to decide whether to go for Dodge Ram 1500 or the Ford 150. I don't need philosophy to help me decide whether to get the shaw internet package with cable, or just buy a higher GB package and get Netflix.

What about higher decisions? like whether to allow a human to kill themselves if they are in permanent pain? if that is ok, can people who do not have pain, but the loss of dignity should also be allowed to kill themselves?. The common folk says "that's an easy one" and every common folk seems to provide a different answer, ironically it seems there is no "common folk!", the only thing common about the common folk is, generalizing for argument, they process information which is a trick and trap, and analyze them using their emotions instead of reason. It could be the left promoting climate-hysteria by appealing for human emotions using lying pictures of Polar bears dying, or it could be the conservatives giving an illusion to people a life of "liberty and low taxes" but favoring the wealthy behind the screens.

Philosophy ponders the nature of humans and the nature of this world at its very basic and simplest terms. The holy grail is the "why?". The Romans tired of seeing the Athenians thinking, and repeatedly asking the question "why", and questioning the answers to the whys, probably thought to put things to rest by adopting a religion, Christianity. "Here is your answer to why, period". Though never stated, the proliferation of theological belief must be the terminator of philosophical pursuit, or, there is nothing more to think than Plato, or Aristotle or Socrates or Descartes.

## Facts

Nobody now asks the question, "why do you want to go to a job?", because it now has become a fact that people work, or go to jobs. Many people may not Diogenes, called the Cynic, the ancient Greek philosopher who lived in the market in a wine jar, with only a bowl for a possession, later which he threw that too, after seeing a kid drink water with bare hands. Diogenes would have been considered homeless, and probably would have been in jail, because he masturbated in public and urinated on name-callers. But to the ancient Greece Diogenes was a "Guru" so much so that Alexander once visited him, and when asked "tell me anything that could please you", for which Diogenes replied, "you are blocking my sunlight, get the fuck out of my way". Imagine Alexander the Great, the guy who conquered half of the known world, asked to just "go away, you have nothing that could please me"

### Is this freedom?

It is not our right to say what people do with their life. But it is observed, like it or not, humans have "chained" themselves, or to be soft "tied" themselves, entangled themselves deep in a ball of wool, that they are now in a position of "have to". BIrth has to be registered, children have to go to school, an adult has to go to a job, a couple has to by a house. If you live in Calgary you have to buy a car. You have to go to the gym. You have to stay away from GMO foods, the list keeps on going, but hopefully, the reader gets the point. Is this freedom?

All these "have to's" lead to "money". Money is the solution. We need the money and we need more of the money. Now, this is a fact, or rather this has become the fact. An unquestionable fact. Nobody could question that we do not need a job, we do not need money. Because when the one year child is going to look at the blue painted, plastic with a face on it, he is going to scream "Thomas!" and you need $79.99 to buy that for him, or you can try Kijiji for a lower price, but then you need a car or drive or transit to go to another part of the city.

#### Need for Government

Can we say to people, what to buy and what not to buy? can we say to people, "no you don't need that thing", the liberals can, and they want to, because they believe in ideology and they believe they could dictate people's life, for e.g. the Carbon Tax They know better and they would do better, so they believe. The conservatives are "illusionaries" the prey on the weakness of people, the weakness of people for "money", so they dangle the "carrot" in front of people like "jobs", "more jobs", "more good jobs" and then "low tax". I am not saying they are corrupt or useless. But they have an approach to people that is immoral. If the first pillar of morality is that nobody could be forced or coerced to do anything. Governments should help people to become free, instead, they made the people reliant on them. Governments say "no, you cannot do without us". That is immoral nobody should tie nobody. That sounds like an anarchist. But is Anarachy even possible?

It could be argued that there is a certain level of order, function, and facility in the society, and this is only because of government, hence we need the government. There is a benefit of having a government. However modern governments have touted themselves as saviors of humans! and if it were the liberals, then the conservatives tout themselves as the "saviors of humans from the liberals". So people want a government so that they do not want the government? sounds contradictory.

### No going back

Humans have made such a mess, that there is no going back, there is no "return to innocence". Humans who do not fit the current pattern of life will simply roam as a homeless person looking like Tom Hanks in Castaway. Or they just quit and die of Fentanyl Overdose. People like Diogenes will be thrown in jail. These are the facts of the situation.

## Human Purpose

Neither do the early philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Epicurus, Aristotle, Diogenes, Aurelius or modern philosophers like Kant, Hume, Nietzsche witnessed what technology could do to the pleasures of humans. If only Viagara or a dildo had existed then, philosophy would have changed.

Science technology is redefining human philosophy in terms of stimulus received by the brain. Imagine or experience the Dolby Surround sound, or Blu-Ray, or 1080 HD picture, how about 3D gaming on mobile phones? how about Virtual Reality and the pleasure of flying planes?. Or how about LSD? Magic MUshrooms? Cocaine? Fentanyl. Just take a couple of puff of pot, or more, edibles are on the shelf in Canada.

With the help of science and technology, Humans are finding more ways to indulge in sensual pleasures, and politics is making them easy. Soon dildos will be offered in hospitals, or probably it already is being. Not sure if the prisoners are given sx-dolls. The great thinkers of Greece or the modern mind analysts of the western world had not seemed to have taken into account discovery new tools that impact the mind.

### Enjoyment as the sole purpose

Setting aside God and religion, it seems that humans can enjoy more, deeper and for a prolonged time. The only three things he needs are money, time, and the internet. They don't even need friends or real people. They can just go online in MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)

### Labour cannot be the purpose of humans

We do not need a human to wash cars. We do not even need a human to make the

## The function of a human being

We are also "the rational animal" and a social animal, so our function also involves using reason and getting along with the pack.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.stalkerzone.org/nazi-ww2-atrocities-belarus-concentration-camp-krasny-bereg/
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/PrvtOWEXDIQ?t=121