At root, philosophy is simply at attempt to think clearly, to clarity what is complicated and confusing. It is the intermediate step between one emotion and another, as I have put it in the past. It is necessary, but soluble.
We cannot not philosophize. We can merely do it competently and consciously, or incompetently and by assumption and rote habit.
If you say: “I don’t want to think so much that it confuses me” you have established a criterion for your behavior–whatever confuses me is bad–and a corresponding and logical course of action, not thinking.
If you way “there are no universal truths” you have stipulated a very unlikely universal truth. Certainly, some things seem to be true most of the time and this is obvious to all. Banning murder seems to work in most societies, at least intra-tribally. I can’t guarantee the sun will rise tomorrow, but I’d bet everything I own on it.
And I was thinking about safe spaces. What philosophy underlies these? It seems to me to be a combination of magical thinking and corrupted philosophy. What they are NOT is sound psychology. A sense of safety can be needed to help heal trauma, but they are not doing therapy in these places. What they are doing is reducing the resilience and emotional strength of young people in ways likely to breed a demand for social control, and violence against dissidents.
What a safe space IS, is a sacred space for holy Victims. It is a place to worship them; it is a necessary temple for the Cult of the Victim. It is a place for them to go and be feted and worshipped, and for votaries to be exposed to their Gods.
But a sound philosophy would ask: what sort of society do we want, and why? What are appropriate purposes for human existence? What is the importance of psychological health? When we say Individualism, what do we mean, and what can we say about this creed? What is good about it, what bad, and what interesting, and how do we define all these terms?
Self evidently, I have worked hard on my Goodness Movement website to develop a coherent, useful, simple, but adaptable philosophy. I have defined my terms and purposes, and pondered my means and principles.
Most college students never even attempt such work. They are handed a prepackaged philosophy concocted by lobotomized and hateful anti-humanitarians, and punished if they question it, or even attempt an alternative of their own.
I seem to be doing better in recent days with human stupidity and insanity. I did not create it. Trying to abolish intellectual and emotional dysfunction is about as smart as trying to banish grass or moths. I might make some progress here and there, but the weight of the whole thing is vastly beyond my meager capacity. I have realized I need to learn that not every wrong needs to be righted, that most people WILL NOT LISTEN to even the best arguments, framed as positively as I am capable. No, they are looking in the mirror, thinking about their selfies, and staring at their phones. This is not my fault, and not my problem.
This world will obviously pass me by at some point. I will be gone. I have tried to do good, but the obsessive part of it is gradually falling away, which is good. My own reality testing has not been what it could have been, but I think I can argue with cause that it is getting better.