You ask me if perhaps I am thinking too much and you say that it does not bring much. I ask you then if you work too much and what it brings you. You say it is your job and that it brings you money and helps the people around you in some way. So also, is it my job to think; to observe and contemplate everything. The job that I have chosen out of the passion of my entire being and a belief in a ‘better’ society.
The mistake you make is in thinking that the thinkings of a philosopher are the same as your own. You think to yourself; I could have thought of that and now that it has been thought and brought to me, I understand it. Of course you understand it, for it has been taught to you: you are a product of the past and so also of the thoughts that were introduced there. ‘It comes naturally to me that the world is meaningless,’ you say. Of course you say this, for you have been raised to believe it and to be prone to experiencing that. Also those who raised you were raised in a place that was already sown with the seeds of these thoughts.
So must we say no original thought exists? Of course not, but their origin is not to be found in anyone’s upbringing alone. Their origin is found in philosophy; the source of original thoughts. And as I have said these original thoughts then (sometimes) become conventional ones. Telling me that you understand some conventional thought is no impressive feat.
