my normie friend wants to get a philosophy degree. what do i tell him.
He says he wants a philosophy degree because he really enjoys Youtube channels like School of Life and wants to be a thinker. He wants to build his own smart watch but does not know anything about electronics or how to program. He thinks JP and Ben Shapiro are unironically the greatest thinkers of our time, thinks Joe Rogan is a really intelligent and thoughtful person. I mentioned to him the Zizek (marxism) vs Peterson (capitalism) debate and he groaned at the thought of Peterson having to be on stage with a Marxist libtard like Zizek, whom he had never heard of. He is uninterested in reading or learning about Marx and Nietzche because of their anti-conservative, left-wing, godless values.
>being friends with a normie. >thinking anything he says has any weight to it. If he actually goes through with it he'll drop out in a matter of weeks, just lend him some of Plato's dialogues, he won't read them and he'll likely drop the topic entirely.
Landon Torres
Give him a small list of introductory books(starting with How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler) and tell him that he can educate himself for free, and if he doesn't like it then he can fuck off with a different hobby(philosophy is clearly not a career).
Matthew Watson
he doesn't trust second hand sources. He has pdf's of a project gutenberg translation of "Critique of Pure Reason" and some "Phenomenology of Spirit" pdf downloaded to his phone (Spirit is a Christian concept so that one is probably going to be good!) I am not joking.
He started scrolling through the preface to critique of pure reason during a road trip, which is more philosophy than i have ever read. So he has already surpassed me, so I can't hate, really.
anything i say around him makes me feel like a arrogant pretentious prick bully because he is so uninformed
Noah Fisher
>He thinks JP and Ben Shapiro are unironically the greatest thinkers of our time This is why he needs to study philosophy. If it's a good program it will teach him how retarded he is. If it's a bad one he will end up a more effective sophist.
Robert Bailey
this is true, he is pursuing skills. he will either fail or become more convinced of himself.
he is just such a charlatan i cannot help but vent about him on here. he also is trying to be an instagram celebrity,he spends a lot of time in lightroom editing pictures of him looking out over some cliff with his back turned to you. he thinks everything is easy, i hope he fails catastrophically and publicly at everything he has ever wanted of and walks away a humiliated, exposed and broken man like me
