The mother of philosophy

1) This is an analysis of the mother of philosophy written about already by Boethius and I have not read him but I can give an account of the consolation philosophy gives me. When i talk about philosophy, I am not talking about the rigid, distorted idea of philosophy modern education would have you think. I am talking about the philosophy an individual undertakes in their lives, the philosophy from within that does not necessitate any other perspectives. The philosophy motivated by illness, motivated by need not by competition or acceptance. The philosophy that you have known all your life but have not named it philosophy because of what some arrogant cunts in academia told you. Some people who believe they have the objective truth through confirmation of history and others, through general consensus. The philosophy which comes out of the making sense of condition, through rational or irrational means, through delusions or illusions, through creativity or conformity. The complete mixture of life experiences that is only encapsulated by that single individual, the loss of control of input that is left up to untraceable events. That philosophy is the one I’m talking about. It comes at times of trouble, and is specific to every individual, it must never be studied with complete dedication or rigidity, as it should mostly come from within. It can drive a man to success or to insanity, most likely a combination of both. A light that can either blind you or rid you of your lack of visibility. It is essentially an illusion created for very practical means to create a solution to your problems, but you mustn’t forget that they are illusions. Because you do not know what you are talking about. Today’s society must know this, that solving things is only a misdirection, what one must do is cope. Coping is the most utilitarian side of solving and runs contrary to our human intuition but must be applied more in society. Our society says solve your problems, but it should really be saying cope with your problems. Because you cannot solve your problem, you can perhaps solve the illusion of your problem with another illusion and then start from 0

2) I myself have always since a young age naturally turned to the mother of philosophy to cure me of my insignificant difficulties. In reality you will notice that the greatest of philosophers are those that have quite intricate problems that are too internal and complex for society to give a solution. These philosophers are ones that are from quite a good background of wealth and commodity. And that is an essential part for a philosopher. Every human has difficulties, if they don’t have certain difficulties from their environment, they will seek to find a difficulty in their lives. People who have lives which are socially viewed as being ‘hard’, most of them being of course due to materialistic needs, will always have society guide them to overpassing their difficulties. For example, a poor person will be told to become rich and that will make them happy. And although that is of course an extremely difficult problem to overcome, it is also quite direct and simplistic in its ends. Your solutions are given by society, and your problems can be reduced and blamed on this specific simplistic requirement. Now what happens if you are born with all the commodity in the world. You are born with all the best virtues you could ask for. Your natural tendency as a human being is to have a problem, linked back to your thousands of years of suffering, this tendency is inevitable and natural. It cannot be ignored. What are you to do, you must suffer, or you are not human. And indeed, you do suffer, your mind looks for any peculiar thing to suffer and exaggerate. Now with this suffering, the other human tendency is to correct it, to solve it. But your problems that you have generated through your perception are deeper in you that you can imagine. If you think of it simplistically, you cannot relate it to any requirements, you cannot relate it to any specific basic reason. So, what are you to do to solve this self-imposed problem? You think deeper and deeper until you enter the realm of philosophy, the realm of the unknown by society, the undiscovered, the misunderstood. There you seek to find the solutions to your problem. Of course, this varies between people, as some to not have the characteristics of the philosopher, they may lack in sensitivity, lack in imagination, lack in creativity, lack in ambition, lack in illness. But those that have the combination of these characteristics will be the greatest philosophers.

In reality, you see that productivity or creation in the world is done through a process of pain. It is that characteristic of pain that initiates that natural human desire for comfort through solutions. Even in the most invisible ways, this pain is always part of the equation.

Can you think of a single action in your life that does not encompass a certain level of pain or discomfort? For example, even the naivest of actions such as going to the cinema, which encounters not a lot of pain but still some. This pain may come from not being able to converse about the movie in the future, missing out on the sequel of the next one, not being able to call yourself a ‘fan’, not being able to say in 20 years that you saw that movie when it came out. So many factors that would cause pain if you do not go. The solution for this issue of course is simple, you go to the cinema, and the incentive to go is not as powerful because the pain is not that overwhelming. This is simplistic and has been used in theories to predict human behaviour for years. But it has not been applied to all sectors of society and does not take into account the need for pain to actually do anything. It outlines the positives and negatives of going to the cinema but does not explore the negatives that create the positives to go. Nor does it show the positives of the negatives. Or the positives of the negatives of the positives. This can go on forever. The point is that there are always positives and negatives that counterbalance each other. Why is this idea not seen in society, why is it not taught in school, it should be the most important thing a human is to know about themselves. The initiation of every acts, the idea of infinite combinations of positives and negatives.