Mental Colonialism

Once a friend told me his brother divided into two kinds of people: People without philosophy and people with philosophy. I imagine that in his head he made a confusion of concepts, and actually he was dividing people based on their knowledge, that is, people without culture and people with culture, because in order to move fluidly within a philosophical conversation vocabulary is necessary to have a moderately nourished to turn our ideas into words as accurately as possible. This suspicion I was born to me the fact that I can not imagine a single human being who lacks abstract guidelines that guides their behavior is, I do not think a person can exist without philosophy. Some would have philosophies sencillitas volume corresponding to their cultural background and who also will have as sophisticated and complex philosophies like clockwork and ornamented with details of the Sistine Chapel. But someone who can perform simple tasks such as grocery shopping or getting up everyday to go to work, and that may not be able to create for himself (or taking someone else's, but of this more anon) a small system belief to allow more or less explained how and why the world there is a character that I find very unlikely. I think this description is more likely for the golem of Jewish tradition or to a remote operated robot than a person. Take someone serious philosophy zombificarlo, reducing it to the level of something.

Now, this does not mean that all people are equally valid philosophies or worthy of being taken into account, because a great evil of our time is the colonization of subjectivity. By this I imply that many people today no longer think for themselves, if not rather are intended, either by their religious leaders, either by the writers of the TV show fashion, etc.. A person who distances himself from these ideological systems McDonald's style generally be a person worth listening to. Normally called our attention, in addition to its originality, that knows how to put into words or ideas-ideas-jumbles that occasionally have crossed our mind, but we do not know how to externalize, we do not know how to say please add to this the views that this person has generated since its isolation and the sea of ​​new ideas that we never would have occurred to us. You also have to be honest, nothing new under the sun shines, and although these people in turn may have taken a little bit of moisture, another sliver of Sartre and so have been committing plagiarism innocent little when ideological form an opinion own, often are the ones that serve as a bridge between the great thinkers and us.

I personally do not think that there are people with philosophy and no philosophy, rather I think that there are people with their own philosophy to which you have devoted time and care, and people with the philosophy of someone else, a very quick and easy solution to a doc to the lifestyle of today's man.