I ended up being a mason because my other trades involved working for corporations and I didn't like them fellows they tried to tell me what to do. I am the kinda guy that tells you what to do...So I run my own company and tell the slaves to enjoy their time in the pit.You post some gems of wit that cut to an issue at times though so....dont give up ya fuggin Mason. Its needed in the weeds.Yes indeed I am used to doing it because it's fun and I know the end will come when you can't do anything but post grumpy thoughts on USMB like Whetherman or Owl...I actually agree with that, mostly. A LOT of philosophers take what's obvious to most folks and type out what's already intuitive - and I think it seems to be people that dont contemplate things on any deeper level much that find it profound.Oh this is philosophy, blah,,boring and over pretentious that humans write ideas down and others want to follow them....Be original and just do something really outlandish and grin about it when you're too old to move...
Its absurd to say that its the same for all philosophers, though. Its nice to find some gems that youve never contemplated before. It just sucks that youve gotta weed through so much pseudo intellectual propaganda to find it.
This OP is a great example. There are obvious archetypes that certain humans possess, and saying things like " we love to hate" is one of those stubbornly obvious parts of a subset of humanity that it serves no utility to speak about, at length. We already thought and learned about it, at length, merely by living the human experience.