What is the pursuit of understanding in your opinion? To me it sounds very vague. — Shawn
So, are you looking for higher quality content as per the OP? — Shawn
I would like to see more high quality stuff, such as more essay or book reading groups, like we did in the beginning. — Jamal
But I realize I’m not leading by example, as I hardly contribute to the philosophy discussions these days. Seems I could only keep that up for a few years. — Jamal
When I want "higher quality content" I read the greats. — Janus
I would prefer higher quality content. Who wouldn’t? It is what is … a ‘stepping stone’, at best, onto other things, a pool of boredom and squalor at worst.
I learnt before joining this forum that it would serve mainly as a place to hone my writing and reading in a more critical way. That is all. — I like sushi
I would like to see more high quality stuff — Jamal
would like to see more high quality stuff
— Jamal
"Do you feel like you're wasting your time being here?"
What is "wasted time"?
No, we don't want to see more high quality stuff. Quality is too demanding, too burdensome, hard to produce, often tedious to read. We don't have to go for absolute slop, but let's be sensible: sitting down at the mighty Mac and turning out refined, insightful, elegant, and witty text is a major drain on one's ever-diminishing intellectual resources. I could be brilliant, but then I would be too exhausted to appreciate the adulation which fallow philosophers would shower on me.
Enough about the flight to quality! — Bitter Crank
I could be brilliant, but then I would be too exhausted to appreciate the adulation which fallow philosophers would shower on me. — Bitter Crank
The best threads for me are always the ones I am not competent to participate in. — unenlightened
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