“Most academic philosophy is just a big word game. The game is played with pensive looks and jargon and claims to have read improbably large amounts of ever more obscure philosophical writings. (‘You can’t possibly understand unless you’ve read 14c Laotian philosopher Pa Vong’s obscure unpublished early work which has never been translated from the ancient Lao and which you need a $100 a month subscription to Lao Philosophy Today to read…’).”

- Comment on Philosophy Bites’ podcast on “What You Can Do With Philosophy.”

I DIE.

Also, I’ve found that every philosopher has her own language, which does not necessarily correlate with the meanings of words as normal human beings understand them, so: good luck conveying truth(s) about life, academic philosophical dialogue. (nerdshares)

Most philosophers have a professional interest in promoting philosophy as a ‘useful’ practice. (Cf, BRIAN LEITER.) I’ll take someone like Wittgenstein’s view on it: Learn a useful trade, (hippie).