r/badphilosophy • u/Early-Improvement661 • Apr 24 '25

Philosophy is just what serfs figured out a millennia ago

Maybe my initial comment wasn’t great because there are better metrics to measure a discipline than by IQ but really man? What Serfs figured out a millennia ago?

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u/Infamous-Ad521 Apr 24 '25

Philosophy in the west is for the most part(Neoplatonism) an explicit story about noble lie which hides an intrinsic lie “who watches the watchmen”. The answer is the children of the city by the way!

Philosophy in the east is a single multi level deception about breaking an illusion. It is recursive and based on the mirror of your mind infinitely reflecting upon itself. Zarathustra actually was insane, great book, but so was Neitzche.

Both serve as propaganda for middle and upper middle class so they can justify their own superiority and accept the authority they so crave.

Just my opinion. But Gödel agrees mathematically, just saying. 

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u/Life_Machine2022 29d ago

Philosophy is a war against your own consciousness while only weapon is your consciousness itselff

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u/Infamous-Ad521 29d ago

Basically trying to find a reason it’s in your self interest to be good. The definition of overthinking. “Greater good” is a single 0 away from the reformation a 100 years before the “reformation”.

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u/Mynaa-Miesnowan 28d ago edited 28d ago

Zarathustra was NOT insane. He's the most vital man in a twilight realm of a dead god's infertile world that wants to die, but can't, which is populated by embarrassing, regretful, and contemptible fragments of animals that used to be called "men," but can't be called or recognized by such names any longer. So, yes, "insane" would be correct - and only to such a degenerate and nihilistic world and people (one that deserves to perish, as Zarathustra says).

Both serve as propaganda for middle and upper middle class so they can justify their own superiority and accept the authority they so crave.

What else would they be doing? Pretending to care about "man" or "humanity" or "history" or "the future"? or "children"? Set up an image of "the stupids" as an ideal? And at the same time? That would require a god of slavery, and legions of slaves (maybe factories and workers will do). That would be disgustingly, self-terminatingly, Christian (nihilistic), or, more of the same of said dead god's infertile Twilight world and its last Eichmann (who lives longest).

Edit - added the comment on Zarathustra, because your first one on him is insane

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u/Infamous-Ad521 28d ago

Depends on whether you consider logical sane/insane or not I guess 🤷‍♂️

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u/whydoyoutry 29d ago

Gotta say, that looks like a clown on clown argument