"The difference between western philosophy and eastern philosophy is the difference between a poet who knows how to diddle words to craft a clever turn of phrase and a poet who actually has something real to say. The east plunged to the depths while the west bobbed on the surface."
But this very observation is western 'philosophy' !
There's a lot of humans in the world. Eastern Western is a tabloid trope. US imperialism is an existential threat to us all. Mainstream mass culture is commodified propaganda. It's trash.
"The difference between western philosophy and eastern philosophy is the difference between a poet who knows how to diddle words to craft a clever turn of phrase and a poet who actually has something real to say. The east plunged to the depths while the west bobbed on the surface."
But this very observation is western 'philosophy' !
There's a lot of humans in the world. Eastern Western is a tabloid trope. US imperialism is an existential threat to us all. Mainstream mass culture is commodified propaganda. It's trash.
But... Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Shelley, Brontë, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Rilke, Tsvetaeva, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Kerouac, Baldwin. Not trash.