• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    that's a thing, sure, but at least personally most of the time it's neither of these, it's "i have so much knowledge of this topic lodged inside my brain that it's fighting to escape and i have a profound need to talk about it to others, and there is no greater joy in life than having a person ask follow-up questions"

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      you will fucking love sociology and philosophy then.

      the cycle goes something like this:

      • You write a shitty book about philosophy.
      • Someone else reads your shitty book. Decides they have a lot of thoughts on your shitty book, and then write their own shitty book about it.
      • You then read that book, because now reading is the only thing you do in your time ever (on account of the philosophy) and now you have more thoughts on the topic, and so you write another shitty book.

      And this is how we get shit like "incars" philosophy is truly incredible.