Philosophy for the everyday man
Its true. People like me, common everyday folks need some kind of feeling that they are forging ahead in a way that is right... correct... umm good?
You know when it hits you right. You'll be trudging along oblivious to all the nonsense you are bringing into the world, until one fine day it all lands on you as one big pile of c*** (xcus me).
Believe me, there are people who are perfectly fine in spite of doing whatever, whenever they like like molesting furry animals, waging war and torturing their neighbours with their taste in music. These are the people we generally call liberated. And most of these people are rich and famous with a lot of female company.
Anyway, where was I. Ah. Crap falling. You'd be like WTF?? Why is this happening ? And you'll think about the liberated people and how they are still high and dry without any of the metaphorical crap on them. You'll think that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way you live that puts you at a disadvantage. I say you're missing the fact that whatever is wrong is with you! I'll explain later why this is.
You take up the first book coming your way. Im assuming you are middle brow.
Not high brow in which case you would be too smart for your pants and have Nietzsche and Freud explain away all your ills. You would have some money and female company to boot. So fark off, you're fine.
And if you're low brow, the whole world is full of stuff designed to cater to your every passing mood swing! Binge shopping, binge drinking etc, etc. So many options. You guys are the backbone of the modern capitalist economy. So the corporations have your back essentially. And since you'll have the hottest bombshells , you'll be feeling fantastic in any case. And some of you would write self help books about how other people should live their lives.
Now if you're middle brow, you're screwed to begin with. You'd do all the stuff that low brow folks do as a way of life- but there wont be enough booze or chicken in the world to fill that void that you've had the misfortune of comprehending. So thats no help.
Now the thing with "my people"- I shall henceforth refer to the middle brow populace in this fashion- is that they think that they are high brow. So ma homie goes to the nearest book store and gives his usual chetan bhagat a miss, and picks up Nietzsche expecting a dead guy who lived some time ago to have all the answers. Nietzsche talks about life, the universe and everything, but my guy here cant make it through the third para. He would have been better off with Douglas Adams but he doesn't realize it. He buys the low brow fellows self help book and realise that it doesn't help squat. At which point he realises that the problem is essentially himself and not what he does. Also he would figure at the lowest rung in every females ladder (the one that doesnt matter much!). refer http://www.laddertheory.com/ladderconstruction.htm
My guy sighs and gets back to work auditing cars, doing other peoples taxes and writing small bits of computer code. He's lucky that he has just enough grey stuff to get him through the day. That way his existential epiphanies are smothered by an overwhelming feeling of inadequacy (which is true) or by the next feel good movie. I'm no different. In fact I audit cars.
