on knowing your place - by Julian Baker - Consume & Enjoy
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25 May 2022 I like philosophy. I just don’t read it. But I would like to read it. For it seems that philosophers have some pretty nifty tips on not sweating the big stuff too much. It’s simply that they always write about things in that incredibly long arsed way. I am being disingenuous. Sometimes I do read philosophy. It’s just that then I can’t comprehend what they've written. Special words. All the way through. Enough said, too much said even? Clever words. For simple ideas. Actually, these ideas are clever if they've never occurred to you. Perhaps philosophers should use simple words…
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