Well, I should explain myself.

I know you have philosophical thoughts every now and then, and that you have build theories of your own (maybe). But you have to understand, for someone who has spend his entire life discovering and unraveling currents of thought having hard debates with long dead people, and complaining about the statements of the yet-to-be-borns it is a whole different deal than just going trough some ideas. It is a lifestyle.

So in an attempt to be understood and leave something to the world I shall show you:

The steps of the philosophical points of view and understandings according to a local unauthorized philosopher.

The first step is to admit it: You have an interest for the nature of things, their beggining, their future and their condition of being. And by the first step you can't really accomplish much, because it is all about believing whatever people tell you is right, it is about learning of the world from someone else's point of view.*

(*quick note of writer: I realize the way of learning is really half based on someone else's point of view, and that trying to build knowledge from one self is impossible, but my point here is directing to those who only rely on what they were told)

Somewhere along the path of life, you'll encounter some of what you thought you knew was not entirely right, and so your jorney begins. Taking what you had and adventuring into leting another current flow into your opinion and mind.

I realize this is vague. And that is because this whole affair is really, rather vague. But that is the principle step in philosophy, breaking old conceptions of things and form others. And it is also rather vague because there is no way I can know what did you find. Also, you will find that a lot of times, this two different ideas are contrasting.

(Moving from all the political correctness part, stating everyone's right and it's all about subjective views, I shall continue to the real deal)

Generally you realize first that all rules are important, and that they are there for a reason. You think sometimes the reason is hard to find, or simply not important, but you know rules are there to facilitate things, therefore you enter the realm of the stoicism (sort of). Here you try to act in a correct way, follow whatever rules there are and live up to societies conceptions. With none or little hesitation. Your principles are those which you are thaught.

This first step is necesary, and it should not be treated as wrong just because there is lack of logic. But by no means should a person stay in that area of philosophy.

Because if you are too an unauthorized philosopher, you will find that some rules just shouldn't be there, you will find that laws and social arrangements have changed trough history for a reason. You start to reason and put logic into the system. You realize the world is freaking collapsing (you will realize later (hopefully) it wasn't). In this stage you shall proceed to question rules, to argue with authority about what you think is useful and what not. You start the revolution and think that you should change the present order of things. Here your principles are rather shady and very likely to tend towards anarchism.

This second step is just what I told you about, you break old conceptions and form new ones. But this is also a dangerous stage, not because you become a rebel, but because you might stay like that. There are some that once reaching this realization, confirm that they have evolved and think they're the epythome of though, that a new society should be forged by their new (pfft) order (or lack) of thinking. And that is the dangerous part, because while it is a step forward, it is not the final one.

If you are lucky enough to learn more of the world and how it works, you also happen to change your way to see the human condition. The most common way is going from divine to infra. (what th hell do I mean?) That we start seeing the human condition as something great, rulers of the world, and then you happen to see human stupidity, and realize we are actually animals. It is actually quite similar to the previous explanation about rules and society. It is all about growing with society's conceptions and then breaking them.

The latter step may lead you to the so called "raging activist who says humans are stupid apes who have done nothing useful or good". And this is a very complex one, because like I explained previously, some people think that is the epythome of all philosophy in the world. But it actually is only a statement against the rules, and that for itself is nothing but being against just to be against. And that is a current (against just to be against) we should always avoid, for there is no logic, common sense or reason to it.

So far we can begin to see there is a pattern in this drill. We have something, we destroy it, and we try to build something different (obviously using remains of the past).

That should be enough to think about today, I promise there will be a continuation so to explain completely all what there is to this.

by I'm the penguin