Sunday, November 9, 2014

My Work Is Amateurish

My philosophical work is amateurish, rambling, inconsistent and in need of editing. These are my weaknesses. What are my philosophical strengths? Well, how about the weakness just provided and admitted to?

My work is amateurish. A professional philosopher will provide a logically chained argument, without hunches as links, without internal contradictions, or gaps in chains of reasoning. He may provide empirical proofs to support his line of attack. His work will be peer-reviewed with withering commentary answered and survived.

The amateur like me is not a zombie cog in the educational hierarchy, a broken man docile and brainwashed and conforming, however brilliant and credentialed is the slave to high-falutin groupthink. He is a public employee with all the uniformity and mental deadness that accompanies such puckered-butt specialists.

The amateur thinks original thoughts. He is versatile and adaptable, not owned or stifled by the system or the man.

I ramble. As I ramble and think through the acts of speaking and writing, that is when new ideas and new juxtapositions of old, stale ideas generates new outlooks. When one rambles, one cannot predict what one will discover, and the act of philosophizing is like journal writing: do it, do it, to mine something of worth.

Sometimes, I write inconsistent points. Most of the time we want to be consistent, but some positions are multifaceted, and moderate truth and moderate ideas are generated by inputting inconsistent views into one's consideration of how to juggle and balance these conflicting principles.

The editing needs to occur, and this winter, I will be editing my three published books.

Philosophizing is most fertile and ingenious when its thinker speculated open-endedly without correction directing or bracketing. We do not want to shut down creator of ideas during the process of creation for fear that their free-philosophizing is violating some rule stipulated as how to historically philosophize. Keep it open, free, speculative and growing. We do not want to damn up or plug the spring gushing with new ideas, new perspectives.

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