Schopenhauer says, I must think first
before I write
He is one of the few men that I respect
but even I, have a rebellious streak
There was a time when I thought I would write for money
but now, I write because it keeps my soul warm at night
Whether or not your writing is worth anything
depends on
when you read it a year later
to see if it gives you the same satisfying spark and good feelings
as when you wrote it
Few movies
can give you this feeling
Few friends
can set you free, like writing can
It requires no conditions
and the best writing comes out of you
because it must
like a glorious waste
expelled from your body
and
rolled-in
from time
to time.
Schopenhauer says, the youth have been corrupted by bad books
that young people should only read important ideas after the age of 16
Until then,
they should learn
the natural sciences
languages
and mathematics—
disciplines that can’t be misunderstood
but as a young man, I had little need for foreign tongues, numbers, or science
I was only interested in what could be misunderstood
and the same is true for me now.
Schopenhauer is right, when he says, people read new books because they are new
and people don’t have any perspective
because they don’t read the old
It’s frightening to watch “educated people” who are only aware of contemporary ideas
from the last 20 years
It’s taboo to think anything else
To be honest, it’s taboo to think
There’s only reaction—
like somehow, this is justified, because it is authentic
People scare me
We elevate
superficial
ambitious
manipulative people
who are unhappy
to be our cultural-thought-leaders
Perhaps, happy people don’t want to do unhappy jobs
Healthy people can see an unhealthy lifestyle.
What Schopenhauer says
is mostly irrelevant today
outdated and wrong
I wonder how many people read his ideas and incorporate them into their thoughts
rather than dissecting his basic wrongness
like an academic exercise
Few students in education
read ideas without commentary
We should make-up our own minds
and get it wrong
from time
to time
and then roll in it.
Intellectual Shaman 
Educators no more teach how to think and ridicule/threaten those who do it naturally.
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Very true G.W.! Thanks for reading and for your comment!
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Ah yes: bananas roll, or banana rolls. Why ever not!?
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Thanks for reading and commenting rogermoorepoet!!! 007 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more with everything your wrote and funnily enough I just enjoyed listening to an audio of Schopenhauer’s book for the first time a few weeks ago. He is indeed ‘The philosophical pessimist’ who posthumously influenced so many.
Young people just don’t read enough of the classics and I believe many educators today and post 2000 are to blame. They have been to busy radicalising the younger generations towards following their ´post-modernist – neo Marxist ideologies. It’s tragic since the younger generations see the enlightenment and the progression since as mainly evil.
The American ‘Moral’ Psychologist – Jonathan Haidt gave a great presentation about the dichotomy between the two views of history. I think this is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHxbRNoomek&t=682s
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Awesome! Thanks for the link Observation Blogger! There is nothing more horrifying than listening to young people thinking-up atrocities from a supposed place of moral high-ground. Understanding history is eye-opening! Human Nature repeats itself. Have a great weekend!
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‘thinking-up atrocities from a supposed place of moral high-ground’.
We are only in the beginning too. It’s scary.
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Very Scary, indeed.
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Thanks for the Link Azuni Blogger!!! 🙂 I’m glad that you liked it!
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I have been asking myself “How can so many be fooled to the point where they blatantly sabotage their basic human instinct to stay alive?”
Carl Sagan warned us of the danger of “Lowering the bar” over 25 years ago.
On a satirical note, Monty Python, Church of the Subgenius, Devo and the Movie “Idiocracy” pokes fun at this.
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I have no idea KY6R!!! Not much makes sense right now, if you try to use reason to figure it out!
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Leave a Reply Hi thanks for this, reminded me that Schopenhauer was often quite accurate on the dilemmas of mankind but this is one of his more upbeat quotes:
“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”
🙂
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Very profound poetisatinta!!! Thanks for reading and commenting!!! 🙂
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