Of immense value and importance is critical philosophy, with its analytical thinkers with their penchant for clarifying our reasoning and employment of language, questioning our assumptions and arguments.
For me, always speculative philosophy is more interesting and more productive. Hoffer long had written that it is the playful, the open-ended tinkering, the profitless, impractical wanderings of children and dreamy adults, the investigations triggered by the most mundane even trivial motives, these activities will bring unpredictable, unanticipated, indirect benefits to humankind. Complete independence of thought, the absolute right to investigate anything and utter freedom of expression will make people smarter, happier and a whole lot more advanced.
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