Confessions of an Ex Philosopher
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I would like to be sincerely grateful to the author for sharing their precious expericence in an brutely specific yet wittily ironic manner, as well as to a friend of mine from England, who kindly helped me work on some of this article.
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ãâ¡' Is sharing on Facebook the worst of your student essayâs hapless nonsense really enough of a gratification to balance the intellectual and emotional energy you are pouring onto them?'
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By the way, some people told me the gender of 'I' could not be identified from the original text itself. However, I believe it to be male judging from 'he' used in the following sentences.
'You know how you condescendingly tell young graduate students not to worry if they feel out of place, that everyone feels inadequate, that itâs just âimposter syndromeâ? Time to rethink your strategy. Next time someone tells you how they fear being an imposter you better tell them: âIt might be true. They exist. I have known one. He was a damn good imposter. So take a very long look into yourself and figure it out before itâs too lateâ'
Nonetheless, I obviously mistakenly translated 'partner' as 'girlfriend', so I here apologise to those who might have been offended.
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This is going to be a series of scattered biographical thoughts and polemical remarks. I cannot muster anything more systematic. It pains me, because I donât want to leave anything unsaid, or unclear. But hopefully the many separate strokes will somehow compose into a complete picture. As for why: it is both a therapeutic way to come to terms with my life and something that I feel I owe to people who have known me. Having said this, it isnât going to make me any new friends. And possibly alienate some of the old ones. So be it.
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Iâve been wanting to write this for so long. Expose it all. In a way, it is a (professional) suicide note. A goodbye from a part of me that will never come back. Perhaps more appropriately, it is a ritual, cathartic burning of a mask that has always stifled me. On the 1st of February 2020, the end of my 2-year postdoctoral research post marked the official conclusion of my academic career. I say official because the reality is that it has ended a long time ago.
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The truth is that I have never enjoyed doing philosophy. Perhaps something approaching enjoyment could describe my disposition towards it around the last years of high school and the first couple of years my undergraduate education. I was seized, at the time, by the intoxicating thrill of debating Big Issues with friends, having just been given the vocabulary to do so, and by the excitement of discovering the wide conceptual space still waiting to be explored. But I soon realised that most of it had already been thoroughly mapped, by more capable conceptual cartographers than myself â perhaps centuries before. And what is still unknown â and is truly worth being discovered â required a far keener mind than I could ever hope to have. Dizzying new conceptual vistas gradually become labyrinthine, nausea-inducing, and soul-crushing. So, most of my âcareerâ has been painfully marked by self-doubt, by the chronic anxiety of catching up and to read/to know more, and by more or less conscious (but always unflattering) comparisons with this or that brilliant colleague whose philosophical acumen I never would be able to match. Iâm just not smart enough, or at the very least I donât have a sufficient level of obsessive focus or burning passion (which is what takes the place of wits in many a thinker â for better or worse). Drawing a balance, philosophy has brought to me far more emotional pain than enlightenment, self-confidence, or even just pleasure. That is no way to live.
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Yes, yes, I know: philosophy produces (or indeed, is) the corrosive questioning of oneâs unreflective beliefs and the never-ending process of revision of oneâs conceptual coordinates. âOne cannot but philosophiseâ. I know all that spiel. But when all there is to it is crippling self-doubt, anxiety, frustration and â eventually â bitter resentment, something has gone wrong. A life spent second-guessing anything you write and anything you say, judging it against some unattainable standard of âvaluableâ or âinsightfulâ isnât really worth living, especially when you realise that vast parts of the whole enterprise are moot to being (訳è
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Sellarsâ apple comes to mind. I gave up on the apple, I never reached the core. There might be no return to innocence, but perhaps there can be a path towards, if not happiness, at least peace. Good old boring and dumb peace. Thereâs clearly something of a sophomoric nihilism at work here (not even my nihilism is particularly refined!). Let me give it a more respectable veneer by quoting this passage of Ligottiâs The Spectacles in the Drawer which I always cherished:
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âBut the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a lesser sphere, which is that of the knower. Having lost the prestige they once enjoyed, these former secrets now function as tools in the excavation of still deeper ones which, in turn, will suffer the same corrosive fate. And this is the fate of all the secrets of the universe. Eventually the seeker of a recondite knowledge may conclude â either through insight or sheer exhaustion â that this ruthless process is never-ending, that the mortification of one misery after another has no terminus beyond that of the seekerâs own extinction.â
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Philosophy has always been a very personal affair. Well, not always. When it stopped being a personal affair, it also stopped being enjoyable. It became a performance. I realize that many of you are able to seamlessly weave personal involvement and academic performance together. For me, thatâs always been impossible. Iâm too slow, my thoughts too dim, and too prone to distraction to focus on one single problem. And when I do, I am unable to crystallize my involvement with such a problem to intelligible and coherent terms. And even if I manage that, I can at best produce a competent list of platitudes. When the inexpressible (not because mystical, but because too close to the bone for me to articulate onto the field of discourse) project of shaping (edifying, in both senses of the term) my own individuality â what I thought philosophy was about â became the public performance of puzzle-solving, thatâs when I developed a rejection of philosophy. Iâve always held dear the Plotinian motto ânever stop carving your own statueâ, but I eventually realised that I wasnât carving my own statue, I was carving a statue, meant for public exposure, and designed in order to meet public criteria of beauty rather than to represent my inner self. Do you know how many times I wrote a Facebook comment or a blogpost (or formulated a question in my mind during some talk) only to delete it because: ânah, thatâs too dumb, Iâd make a fool of myselfâ. Well Iâve had enough.
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But I digress. Does this general life-plan make me happy? Well, Iâll pick sailing, translating, and interacting with 8-year olds over teaching Sellarsâs CDCM any day of the week.
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I realise that this sounds somewhat confrontational. Itâs not meant to. If you are happy, keep doing what you do (are you happy though?). It also offers a distorted image of me, as if I was now completely at peace with myself, enthusiastically striding along my new path, my head held high. I am not. Part of me is terrified about stepping out of the comfy confines of academia, all I'ever known for a long time. I'd be stupid not to be scared that I'll end up fucking up even more. I will be 40 in a few years and I have accomplished nothing significant in life. And I didnât even spend my 20s in a haze of parties, travelling around, and making stupid mistakes. Nah, I was already boring back then. Why would you listen to my opinions about anything? You probably shouldnât.
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If this has somehow offended or upset you, that was not my intention. If you knew me personally and now you feel somehow betrayed, for you thought I was someone Iâm not, Iâm sorry. But I had enough of pretending. Some time ago some of my FB contacts shared some quote or something that said âWhy does it always have to be âbrutally honestâ? Canât we be âkindly honestâ for once?â Well, if I sounded brutal at times thatâs because usually what we conceal is stuff that we fear might upset people, and because the very act of concealing it, in the long run, makes us angry and bitter.
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