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philosophy is a cul de sac venture for old men, for old men are inexperienced in terminology of change, no chance of a plateau before the drop that's death, philosophy need youth and inexperience to feed the Aristotelian maxim designating the essence of philosophy: genesis of bewilderment, genesis of awe... old men have seen too many repeats for the youth to grapple with in order that the bewildering status quo be kept like the firmness of the architecture of complacent tourism allows for a photograph... unearth the hidden routes, shelter the most encouraging roads... limit the old to simply die rather than allowing them to philosophise... take away the cushions of duck feather from their bedded heads and replace them with blocks of stone... and see how quick they'll philosophise a return to the drama of life... but so ineffective their return will be, they will become shamed by the opulence they were given, a greedy voice for change they could never make gunpowder evoke a volcano birthright of boom.
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Feb 27, 2016
Feb 27, 2016 at 8:11 PM UTC
contrasts in hating (william hazlitt)
philosophy is a cul de sac venture for old men, for old men are inexperienced in terminology of change, no chance of a plateau before the drop that's death, philosophy need youth and inexperience to feed the Aristotelian maxim designating the essence of philosophy: genesis of bewilderment, genesis of awe... old men have seen too many repeats for the youth to grapple with in order that the bewildering status quo be kept like the firmness of the architecture of complacent tourism allows for a photograph... unearth the hidden routes, shelter the most encouraging roads... limit the old to simply die rather than allowing them to philosophise... take away the cushions of duck feather from their bedded heads and replace them with blocks of stone... and see how quick they'll philosophise a return to the drama of life... but so ineffective their return will be, they will become shamed by the opulence they were given, a greedy voice for change they could never make gunpowder evoke a volcano birthright of boom.
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Feb 27, 2016
Feb 27, 2016 at 8:11 PM UTC
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