Thinking about Philosophy

While George Carlin once said that children should be taught to question everything [2013: when he was parroting my erased work from 2006 and 2007], I'm not sure I agree wholeheartedly with him. It depends on the child. Philosophy is not for everyone. It takes a strong mind to handle it. The stuff is a kind of intellectual dynamite. Hitler should have been prevented somehow from reading Nietzsche. Look what Hitler did. He seized upon the phrases that appealed to him, ignoring the overall argument, and used them to develop a rather sinister mythology. History tells the rest of the story. I think it's possible for everyone to become philosophers, but the effort needed to achieve this is too great. We got some thick people out there, myself included, who just don't get it the first or second or third time, and, in the meantime, they're walking about with warped versions of very powerful ideas floating about in their heads. Then consider things like societal efficiency. How does the work get done when everyone is questioning their actions all the time? It doesn't. Sorry if I've said all this before. I must have meant it.
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