You know how, when you encounter a philosophy out there in the world, if there's any truth in it, you have that little "aha!" moment? And then, as you learn more about the rest of the philosophy, you sometimes find yourself going, "What the fuck?" The philosophy was so right about that one little kernel of truth that you just can't believe that the edifice of other stuff its adherents have built up around it could possibly be bullshit. The more you look at the collection of bullshit built around that little kernel of truth, the more you start to doubt your original "aha!" Finally, you get exhausted by the contradiction and do one of two things: accept the philosophy whole hog, figuring you can live with the questionable bits because that one kernel of truth is so valuable; or you just reject the whole thing.
I think that this explains most of what goes wrong in human lives.
I think that this explains most of what goes wrong in human lives.
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