In Defense of Stupidity

Philosophical writing is the only sensible kind of writing.

That’s what a ‘friend’ posted as his Facebook status.

It’s sad to see how pride eats up a person and this usually happens to people who thinks in levels and not kinds. 

The dismaying thing here is not against his premise but in his injunctive conclusions. 

Philosophy isn’t for the elite, it belongs to all those who have a taste for meaning and questioning. 

It’s horribly flawed to assume bizarre and contentious propositions regarding writing (as how people don’t think and simply post updates on FB) and end up with, let me say, a similarly horrible flawed conclusion.

Facebook statuses, twitter tweets, instagram captions, blog entries and all, it’s basically a form of writing. I think the primary purpose of writing is to share information (either it’s an info that people are concerned with or not, the argument here is that, the writer wants to bare it anyway.) 

Although some pompous people create a series of do’s and don’ts regarding the proper way of writing, I am quite baffled by the idea of ‘respectability’ on this issue.

How then can we delineate a ‘respectable’ article with a ‘non-respectable’ one? Does it mean that if it’s profoundly written, it’s already respectable enough? How about fidelity to truth? 

Let’s say, a person who is so angry wrote an angsty Facebook status – can we still consider it as ‘respectable writing?’ If one updates a status telling people about what he ate, how much she loves her boyfriend, flashback Fridays, throwback Thursdays, and how expensive was their vacation trip, can we not consider those as writing as well? (in the first place, they are simply stating facts, thoughts, and emotions: and further than this, they spoke the truth!)

We all have different hobbies, different perspectives and I think it’s not proper for people to post bad comments on these statuses. 

I know, it’s irritating sometimes, but that’s who the person is, so suck it in. There are ways on how to avoid this, block them, remove updates coming from them, unfriend them or simply, ignore and don’t read their posts.

I know that the main predicament here is that writing now becomes a superficial undertaking rather than what it essentially is: the very endeavor of man's pursuit for meaning (which can be seen also as a search for happiness, wellbeing and any positive anthropomorphic ideals one can think of). 

We have to reconsider that not everyone think like us, share the same aspirations and interests as we do. Not many people are willing to venture into the dark realm we call deep-thought, (wait, I am not saying I have deep thoughts – just a side comment) some prefer angsty posts (or emotional ones at that) and instead of putting these people down by creating a dissertation on how stupid their posts are , I think this is where true lovers of wisdom should enter the picture (as we claim to be).  

All the more that we should find meaning in their ramblings and shed new light to how vital their ‘stupid’ thoughts are to their ways of living their realities.

Writing isn’t only done in schools where you have to reach an epistaxis just to have a good grade. (or answer thesis statements for those above-mentioned grades) 

Writing is more than just a scholarly venture. One writes to prove his existence, not only for the readers but for himself as well. Cogito ergo Sum, one writes to prove that he is a thinking being – and to think is to exist (Res Cogitans). 

 The worth of what one writes isn’t on the objectivity of his point but can be seen on the hermeneutic interpretations as how the horizon of the reader and the writer fuses as one. The worth of the things these people write stems from the underlying entrenchment of every single aspect that has made them as ‘them’ , (or in my case, this is me!) I prefer remembering past stories and what thoughts were running through my head during those times. One writes to conceal what one harbors, hence: esoteric.

My writing may be viewed as angsty ramblings, (or hateful to some) but I am telling you, it’s not. Misinterpretations happen due to the intricacies I present (if there are even intricacies and wisdom in this blog),but I love dwelling on paradox and that’s who I am. I write my emotions and sometimes I wonder why do I even bother writing these? So I write about how my day progressed (or regressed), how I feel about the painful struggles I am experiencing and yes, some might say “you don’t have to fudgin post that” or “the hell do I care!” but to my defense, why read this crap then? I write not because I want to change the world or provide a cure for all the sufferings in this world but I do it for my own personal healing and satisfaction. (and of course, I want to re-member and re-live my past)



So this pretty much sums up my argument, writing is for everyone no matter how deep their thoughts are or it’s just a random post of what you ate, how you feel or what you think. I guess what makes it ‘sensible’ as to how I define sensibility is entirely dependent on it’s truthfulness. One can always claim that he went to Tacloban and helped the typhoon victims there with evidences (pictures) as he holds relief goods, perfect shots as he sweats with overflowing altruism, (every once in a while, he needs to stop to have the perfect angle and in each picture, there’s a detailed caption explaining how his body suffered from all the selflessness or one can always have a picture inside a church, intently praying but is it really as how it looks like? Or worse, do they even live their lives as how they preach it?) I do not exclude myself from this, but at least, I do not write about things I don’t know or things I know that it’s not me (which makes this blog very personal and unappealingly senseless)

To each his own. Relativity you might say, but it seems it really is a solution to lengthy treatises. The absence of an objective truth is no longer a danger to be avoided, rather, it is a signal for thinkers to continue searching for it. (which is NOT a futile exercise unless you believe it to be so. As a professed lover, you should no longer aim for the finality but on the process and the search that comes before it, in as much as you call full of bull crap.)

The problem dear friend is that you are concerned with the virtuality and standards of writing, but still, you have to understand that whats more important with the superficiality of all these is the meaningful content of what is written. Call social media an exacerbated kind of writing but we have to reconsider that not all people think like us. The virtuality of their written thoughts, the words they choose (if there is even a choice, or those are the only words they know) still projects a thought.

Some writers write about ‘sensible’ things and create ‘respectable’ articles like how to be a leader, how to love one another, how they clamor for peace, why the need to be kind, being a lover of wisdom, and the like, however, if I do write like that, it’s so not me. (at least in a way as how I know myself). I prefer to mingle with personal, useless, unsensible and un-respectable things, those ideas that won’t make me sound like a self-righteous-hypocritic scum. 

I don’t intend to be seen sensible and respectable in the first place, cause if those were my reasons, I would’ve put my real name and not hide in some play-safe pseudonym. I may not be faithful to pre-made philosophical treatises, but I sure am loyal to truth, and as a self-professed writer, it’s all about being true to what I think, and more than this, fidelity to the actions resulting from the ideas I present.

Lover of wisdom as you say,

Love should not judge,

Love should never discriminate,

Love understands.


Walk your talk.