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I have a great desire for information. When I read and absorb information I feel as though I am engaged in a valuable task. However, whenever I finish a given book or read about a new concept or philosophy and go to think about it or form an interpretation, I immediately become weighed down with the impression that there is no point in doing so. This reaction causes me to feel poorly about myself as the I feel as though I ought to be thinking more carefully about the concepts I read rather than using them as white noise before moving on to the next concept. However I can't escape the feeling that any thoughts I might generate are completely worthless and useless and that there is simply no point in formulating them in the first place. Am I just a retard that has nothing worthy of saying? Or am I simply seeing clearly the reality of the sitation? Do other anons suffer a similar feeling when it comes to thinking?
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>>25212716
i have the same problem. reminds me of a book i read on the paris commune and the ideas of the people involved in it. there was lots of talk at the time about overcoming the division between practical and theoretical education, and there's one guy i remember in particular who had a theory he called 'universal education': the idea was that in the schools of the utopian future you would not only learn a socially useful craft - woodworking, or metalworking, or painting or whatever - but also use that practical activity as the lens through which to think about what you're reading in history and philosophy and so on. you'd read nietzsche and think, what's the nietzschean approach to shoe-making, what would the foot of the ubermensch be clad in? you'd read about medieval cobblers guilds and that would be your case study for more abstract theories about cultural change or aesthetics or whatever. i think this would solve the problem you're talking about, the feeling that ideas don't really matter, that they don't add up to something. the way mark fisher talks about philosophy through the music and culture of his youth reminds me of this too. you need some kind of personal, practical project to give shape and meaning to more abstract ideas.
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>>25212736
Both of you are 19 or younger
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youre not balancing theoretical with practical stuff well enough. theoretical works expand your mind's ability to think up ideas to try and practical stuff helps you actually execute them. however both of these things imply that you actually do something creative. journaling counts, because observing the world and making comparisons are muscles you dont have by default and have to train. your goal is to internalize knowledge to a working level, not to memorize. living is found in the former