Why isn't everybody like me?!?

[3Bey]

Do you ever say to someone else, one day, that you love philosophy? Just one time, to see his reaction? If you do, what was it? I can guess a huge silence filled with unease. Or something likes that. Just think it, it’s normal, you’re a weirdo. You like philosophy!

As I gain in maturity, discover what logical fallacies are (called “sophisme” in French), I enter in a beautiful world, filled with logic, with plain and simple logic. I discover how to free myself from being manipulated by others’ opinion. I discovered critical thinking, or philosophy.

But, with it, I also discovered what a bad reputation philosophy has to common people. For a huge majority, philosophy is weird, as well as philosopher. But, for me, what these people are thinking it’s just plain aberration.

The problem is that, like it or not, you can’t free yourself from philosophy. If you have values, or simply take some choice in your life, you’re using “a way to see life and humain”, even if you didn’t realize it. People pray to the god of science, vote, commonly dislike the “bad bad communist” or, (not in my country but in others) think patriotism is one of the best values. I don’t want to argue on these things, but the point is that these people, by doing that, are taking position on the naturalist, Marxist and all the others philosophic theories. They don’t like philosophy, but they can’t help themselves to use it. The difference between them and a philosopher is that they just don’t do it the right way. Their using logical fallacies, like “the guy in a uniform said to me that science was good, so…”, like I did.

But worst, these people judge the action of others. Their judgement lay on values that they just pick from their parent and from society…and they judge the ones that don’t have the same values!

For me, everybody should, at least, try to do some philosophy, or read some. Or at least not pejoratively judge them. But, even if what I just said seems rational and logic for me, I can’t help myself to say that it sounds like: Why isn't everybody like me! So I want others point of views. What are you thinking? Am I right to say that everybody should try philosophy? That philosophy is fundamental?

If this text is illegible, I’m really sorry. You see… it’s hard to write an opinion like this when it’s not in your first language…]