The Neglected Philosophers Of Life

Ispend most of my time with children, animals, or dying/dead people. These neglected philosophers don’t say much about the ‘important stuff’, which tells you what’s really important in life. By ‘important’ stuff I mean news, politics, money. And all the power, class, and economics behind it. The impertinent importances that roil our lives. Children, animals, and those near the exits; these persecuted philosophers suffer the most from the above, but don’t engage with them. It’s their perspective I think about a lot. Cause they’re the cool ones. Children, for example, don’t know what is going on, unless it directly impinges on them. They only know the consequences of important doings, not the reasons. You can’t tell a child they’re going hungry cause some foreign banker needs to get their interest payment.

None of this makes sense to a child because it actually doesn’t make sense. Adults are perversely able to rationalize away consequences, and we try to educate children out of their obvious common sense. As I learn more, I increasingly bow to the natural wisdom of children. Children are natural communists, having no particular concept of private property beyond their immediate needs. They of course fight over toys, but they at least know that they’re supposed to share. Adults don’t even feel bad about doing bad anymore. Adults have elevated not sharing to a virtue and built a whole imaginary world around greed. We should honestly empty out economics and MBA classes and send those world-destroyers back to preschool.

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