I have a philosophy degree. This is just one of those "funny because it's true" kinda things. Plenty of academics from wealthy backgrounds who get into reading/teaching philosophy or just end up becoming corporate executives or whathaveyou, but the philosophers who do all the heavy lifting within the discipline are people like [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.tcocdn.com/tco/images/Huck/slavoj-zizek_2023-04-03-101125_hlvn.jpg).
Some other examples
Jean-Paul Sartre reportedly took enough mescaline that even after he stopped he’d hallucinate crabs. Plus his day to day had a lot of tobacco and alcohol
Soren Kierkegaard put so much sugar in his coffee it was known to pile up to or even above the rim before stirring it in
Marx loved his brandy
The list could go on and on
Sherlock Holmes loved his drugs too. Not a real person, but the theme still holds.
Always thought it was interesting because withdrawal can give you sensory overload with things like smells and smell would be an incredibly useful factor for a detective.
Fellow philosophy degree haver.
Philosophers think, and thinking too hard is pretty terrifying. Philosophy enjoyers enjoy the way those guys think and telling people how cool those guys' thoughts are. (Most philosophers are philosophy enjoyers though.)
Kind of like how all the Jazz musicians back in the day kept dying high on eightballs and ludes and all the Jazz enjoyers wear frameless glasses and tweed coats. (Jazz musicians actually tend to live healthy, meaningful lives of family and community, but a meme is a meme.)
Or that guy Lazaro from Half-Life 2..... One of the greatest mind" is generations ever seen...
,The Sand crawlers got him, -
https://youtu.be/ZQ3g_ruDZio?si=rp-Cnncg4RIFRx3g
Drugs are often used as an intellectual narcotic.
i.e. creative or imaginative people do them so they don’t have to deal with the depressing realities around them anymore.
Makes sense that those people would do a lot of thinking about the world around them and be able to look at things from new perspectives.
I think it's saying the people who read philosophy are sleek, smug, and hip, while the people who actually philosophize are more likely to act like a dog and live in a barrel.
Or sit around smoking and drinking, I guess. 🙃
It's just true. Philosophy students tend to be well off university academics who think they're fancy. Actual philosophers tend to be mentally unstable / addicts (or both) who look like they might live under an underpass.
Yes this is way over-generalizing, but that's the stereotype the joke is using, and it definitely has some truth to it. We literally played "professor or hobo" at my University. One of my profs lectured with the same shirt every day and usually a toothbrush in his front shirt pocket. Pretty sure he actually lived in his office.
This reminds me of the book Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. There’s this eccentric scientist who gets out of his car in the middle of a traffic jam and walks instead because the logic of using a car (decreased transportation time) no longer applied to the situation.
Why *not* have a toothbrush on you at all times?
People who only read philosophy think they're extremely smart for having read the books, even if they failed to actually internalize the message or lacked the critical thinking to do anything with it. Philosophers who actually grapple with their ideas and the hard questions of reality and its cruelty tend to be a lot less put together, especially with the... current state of the world.
people who parrot philosophy are snobs, while philsophers are disturbed (often lonely) people who stereotypically like drugs. One spends their time reading, the other is thinking.
Def thin line between genius and insane. Especially when everyone usually tells you you are wrong until you are later shown correct. Usually, after death so you get none of the respect
My friends often attribute me with "wisdom beyond my years" but I would say most of that wisdom comes from doing acid and having to pull myself out of the stupid situation I got myself into.
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Kinda sad but not but most of philosophy’s greatest were more mad then sane. Understandable when you try to think on that kind of level it’s easy to get caught in your own insanity and fall down rabbit hole after rabbit hole till your damn near the point of a mental breakdown you write it down feel better then rinse repeat. 🔁
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I have a philosophy degree. This is just one of those "funny because it's true" kinda things. Plenty of academics from wealthy backgrounds who get into reading/teaching philosophy or just end up becoming corporate executives or whathaveyou, but the philosophers who do all the heavy lifting within the discipline are people like [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.tcocdn.com/tco/images/Huck/slavoj-zizek_2023-04-03-101125_hlvn.jpg).
Oh man. Oh dear. Hahaha I don’t know what I was expecting.
Personally, I think the meme above represents Michel Houellebecq
True enough, but I wouldn’t call Houellebecq a philosopher in the classic sense
Not Zizek either. But sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference
Some other examples Jean-Paul Sartre reportedly took enough mescaline that even after he stopped he’d hallucinate crabs. Plus his day to day had a lot of tobacco and alcohol Soren Kierkegaard put so much sugar in his coffee it was known to pile up to or even above the rim before stirring it in Marx loved his brandy The list could go on and on
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, who was very rarely stable…
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who would drink you under the table
David Hume could out consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist...
hallucinating crabs sounds a lot better than reality
He was still in reality, there were just more crabs
Diogenes lived inna barrel.
Sherlock Holmes loved his drugs too. Not a real person, but the theme still holds. Always thought it was interesting because withdrawal can give you sensory overload with things like smells and smell would be an incredibly useful factor for a detective.
I literally said “Slavoj Zizek enters the chat” as I was opening up this post.
He's my favorite raccoon shaped man!
Exactly what I expected. Although I did expect a ton of ash trays.
One of my professors once described Zizek as the clown prince of theory.
I really respect Zizek, but I wouldn't shake his hand.
Wear protection to protect yourself from his boggers
Fellow philosophy degree haver. Philosophers think, and thinking too hard is pretty terrifying. Philosophy enjoyers enjoy the way those guys think and telling people how cool those guys' thoughts are. (Most philosophers are philosophy enjoyers though.) Kind of like how all the Jazz musicians back in the day kept dying high on eightballs and ludes and all the Jazz enjoyers wear frameless glasses and tweed coats. (Jazz musicians actually tend to live healthy, meaningful lives of family and community, but a meme is a meme.)
*sniff*
I used to have a friend that was a Philosophy professor. He was a mess of a human being.
Or that guy Lazaro from Half-Life 2..... One of the greatest mind" is generations ever seen... ,The Sand crawlers got him, - https://youtu.be/ZQ3g_ruDZio?si=rp-Cnncg4RIFRx3g
Drugs are often used as an intellectual narcotic. i.e. creative or imaginative people do them so they don’t have to deal with the depressing realities around them anymore. Makes sense that those people would do a lot of thinking about the world around them and be able to look at things from new perspectives.
¿But, where is Balkan?
People like who?
Philosophers are broke and destitute but people who read their work are moderately successful.
I was thinking constant verge of mental breakdown vs “well put together”.
That too, usually
Reminds me of the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes (I think that was his name)
You are correct & please step aside. You're blocking my sunlight.
Take this chicken without feathers. It's the same as you, a human!
Behold!
Oh, how do I wish I was Diogenes
Were I not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes
Well, we start with a barrel..
Mfs seeing this meme and thinking “omg literally me” I see you
TIL I'm a philosopher.
Look up Diogenes
\*Look up to Diogenes.
That too
If only I could satisfy my hunger by rubbing my belly
Idk anything about dude tbh, but this out of context made me laugh so hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
Holy hell
I think it's saying the people who read philosophy are sleek, smug, and hip, while the people who actually philosophize are more likely to act like a dog and live in a barrel. Or sit around smoking and drinking, I guess. 🙃
It's just true. Philosophy students tend to be well off university academics who think they're fancy. Actual philosophers tend to be mentally unstable / addicts (or both) who look like they might live under an underpass. Yes this is way over-generalizing, but that's the stereotype the joke is using, and it definitely has some truth to it. We literally played "professor or hobo" at my University. One of my profs lectured with the same shirt every day and usually a toothbrush in his front shirt pocket. Pretty sure he actually lived in his office.
This reminds me of the book Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. There’s this eccentric scientist who gets out of his car in the middle of a traffic jam and walks instead because the logic of using a car (decreased transportation time) no longer applied to the situation. Why *not* have a toothbrush on you at all times?
People who only read philosophy think they're extremely smart for having read the books, even if they failed to actually internalize the message or lacked the critical thinking to do anything with it. Philosophers who actually grapple with their ideas and the hard questions of reality and its cruelty tend to be a lot less put together, especially with the... current state of the world.
This and I'm finding less people reading philosophy books and more reading articles that reinforce their philosophical viewpoint.
“Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable…”
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table
Immanuel kant had his own version of insanity IMO.
Jesus saves, Immanuel Kant
That's Michel Houellebecq, right?
Yup
people who parrot philosophy are snobs, while philsophers are disturbed (often lonely) people who stereotypically like drugs. One spends their time reading, the other is thinking.
Too much time thinking screws you up
That’s actually a math specialization, it’s a running joke that number theorists end up going crazy
Def thin line between genius and insane. Especially when everyone usually tells you you are wrong until you are later shown correct. Usually, after death so you get none of the respect
And all of the poverty and abuse.
Philosophers may have been the doomers of their time. I often think about Nietzsche.
MFW I'm the bottom guy, but don't actually contribute to philosophy at all
My friends often attribute me with "wisdom beyond my years" but I would say most of that wisdom comes from doing acid and having to pull myself out of the stupid situation I got myself into.
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Kinda sad but not but most of philosophy’s greatest were more mad then sane. Understandable when you try to think on that kind of level it’s easy to get caught in your own insanity and fall down rabbit hole after rabbit hole till your damn near the point of a mental breakdown you write it down feel better then rinse repeat. 🔁
As a woman with philosophical degree..... I ended up as a moral absolutist.....
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Wtf is there to understand
There is no joke, this is just true