26 Philosophy Memes For Thinkers Who Think Too Much About Thinking

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• The reading pipeline is its own beast. It starts somewhere modest and literary and before you’ve noticed you’ve completely lost the plot, not just of the books but of your own reading identity. You came here for one thing and ended up somewhere much darker and much longer and somehow more you. This happens to everyone in this corner of the internet and nobody warns you about it going in.

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• What I love about philosophy memes specifically is how aggressively they out people. There’s a very particular type of person who finds them funny and that person has a whole psychological profile: reads too much, thinks even more, regularly mistakes their own half-formed ideas for original insights, and has at some point used academic confidence to paper over the fact that they were winging it completely. I’m not saying that person is me. I’m saying I laughed way too hard and way too fast at way too many of these.

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• The thing about engaging seriously with philosophy is that it gives you just enough vocabulary to sound like you’ve figured something out while actually just renaming your confusion in more sophisticated terms. You go from “I don’t know what’s real” to quoting someone who passed in 1900 about it, and somehow that feels like progress. It is not progress. It’s a lateral move with better footnotes.

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• But there’s something genuinely charming about a whole community of people who looked at centuries of unresolved questions about consciousness, ethics and existence, and decided the correct response was to make it into a bit. Socrates paid for this. He would have understood

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