Understanding why this doesn't discount critical thought, but creates critical questions is key to truly understanding this....

Philosophy has single handedly propped up religion through absolute skepticism....

https://axiomaticpanic.substack.com/p/philosophers-should-stand-behind

I will say that limitless skepticism creates existential alienation that directly contradicts any mission of resolution. It's unnecessary, as some philosophical ideas and concepts can be known, with certainty, for all intents and purposes and should be allowed to stand unquestioned.

If you don't stand for the fact that every individual is an end in themselves, you have admitted that you yourself don't deserve to be treated as an end in yourself. You NEED others around you to be better than you are. You are a leach.

"We now live in a technologically prepared environment that blankets the earth itself. The humanly contrived environment of electric information and power has begun to take precedence over the old environment of "nature." Nature, as it were, begins to be the content of our technology."
- Marshall McLuhan

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Not totally a fan...but he's right about some things.....

ennui "On-WEE" : A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement — boredom, but with a heavier existential weight to it.

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Does it? Maybe some places....

The cannibalistic nature of life is actually really disturbing....

"For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?"
- Desiderius Erasmus

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I love Emil, but I can't get behind this relativism. Disapproval of somebody's haircut or clothing is not a reason to kill them. Severity is everything....

In that missed necessity or worry about potential problems is uncontrolled stress and suffering.....also, whether you understand or not MONEY can solve this issue as well without understanding......

Well, the states have to maintain justice...

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"By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures."
- Marshall McLuhan

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https://civilsimian.com/MarshallMcLuhan

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Respecting the humanity of the amoral is self-defeating, but a good humanist takes the hit...to a point.