Peter's prophesy...
I never held philosophers in high esteem and for good reason, I too dunce to understand anything they said and also up to now I can't say what they have done for me. I know of them, Kant, Hume and Comte to name a few and to date what they wrote and said is a mystery to me. I am not saying they did not change the way people think, it is just that how it affects me, I don’t know. So why don’t I write philosophy too, you know, about irrelevant things and make a big issue about it. Many years from now some jackass will quote me and say I came before my time.
I will write about the right front tyre of a 1982 Toyota land cruiser travelling on an out back road at fifty miles an hour. Now wait a minute isn’t that what philosophy is all about? A man sitting and thinking about the things he feels are important? I mean here is a tyre and more specific the right front tyre, turning and bumping in the pot holes on a road built by cheap labour, by the mining company who used it to take out and transport the wealth of my country. You see how a topic is building right in front your eyes?
I can go into details about this and show how the rubber that the tyre was made from came from the rubber plantations where poor natives are working for the capitalist men but remain poor for all the hard work they put in. Here is a right front tyre by itself and part of a whole vehicle but oblivious to the rest of the whole and the human at the steering wheel. Now if that was not a philosophical entry right there then the Earth flat; I know some philosophers who said the Earth was flat, killed others for disagreeing too.
In this philosophical narrative I can also give a personality to the tyre and show comparisons to situations right here. I am of the opinion how ever wrong it is that that’s what philosophy is all about, then again if I am to be a serious philosopher I must be adamant that what I say here is the right thing, a fact, I have to defend this to the death.
I must now show that this tyre is like the politicians in all third world countries and the pot holes are the people and communities they roll over and leave in dire straits. So here is it that I am writing about the philosophical meaning of a right front tyre on a 1982 Toyota Land Cruiser bumping along an old pot holed road and its political implications; I am now a great philosopher.
In my philosophical journey I would like to introduce topics that sound like total enlightenment, like the “Socio economic impact of a painful ingrown toenail of a working man on the economy of a small nation state”. I would like to introduce new topics, new ideas never before heard and the little things that affect the bigger things, maybe write a book called “How Erectile Dysfunction affects the outside mistress and the Wife" (a discussion on stress).
These few words put a drain on me, so I think I will skip becoming a philosopher and concentrate on real things, like sex, money and how I can get them in good measure. For those of you reading this, if it makes sense to you then come off the medication the doctor prescribed or change the weed you smoking. As for me, I still don’t get what the philosophers were talking about.
