Philosophy

These days I've been thinking a bit. Since I've been trying to do everything except homework (And yet I still managed to do my Math, 1/2 my Lsc and read 1 CRP Book. That said, There's Hist *Dreading because of the darn WWI context*, 1 Chinese Book *Dread*, and 1/2 my Lsc *Not dreading since I could do 1/2 of it*. Of course, there's Lit too but I can pretend I don't know about it >_> and what's more it's justifiable >_>), I've read up on one philosophy book . It's a book that tries to show how various (Read: 30) philosophers' ideas could be placed in modern life.

That said, my question is that in this dying society, seriously, who cares about philosophy? The death of philosophy is near. Why? Because of its failure to integrate into human society. Of course, if it could, the world would be a better place, there would be 90% less angst in the world and blogs would actually become literature. Bah, fat hope, no one cares about how to stop, smell the plants, realize that the meaning of life isn't something to ponder about but to search for, understand the true meaning of 42, etc.

The complete irony of the situation is that there are 10,000 books on philosophy being published each year as a thesis from universities, and yet throughout each decade 99.9999% of them are either replicas of past philosophers or ineffective in today's society. The 0.0001% never get publicized enough to make it internationally to enlighten the world. IOW, only one book worth reading comes out every 10 years. That's immense assumption and speculation on my part, but hey, famous philosophers never came around annually, right?

Now back to the world. In a world that just refuses to accept philosophy as a way of life, it is just as difficult to see people who also accept religion as a way of life. But in reality accepting philosophy as a way of life is harder than accepting religion as a way of life because for religion you know it's worth it. Philosophy? Who cares now? Who knows here the true meaning of "God is dead" apart from those who actually bother to read on Nietzsche? Even in ACSI where they teach PoD they can get it wrong! Why is it that figarutiveness never applies to philosophy now? Humans have begun to require speed in every single thing. IM, SMS, International Calling, Broadband, they need a quick way through everything, even for answers. No longer can religion, science nor philosophy answer these people's questions anymore. They have become engulfed in the trend of speed, and can no longer stop to think and ponder and listen anymore. Such becomes the demise of philosophy: The failure to understand beyond the surface level of speech.

I suppose yes, an ironic society appears at this point in the views of philosophy, but once eliminated from the world the society is perfectly normal, as there is nothing to see irony in. If only people of the world now see that the quickest way isn't always the best, then perhaps the world could turn for the better. Till then, my hope in the world fades slowly.

Happiness? A way of life? Not anymore, Aristotle. Make way for the Gen-Y.