the final introduction

I have a dream: to hear 2 beggars talk philosophically.



Maybe such a dream defies the social order of today, but sincerely, this is the dream I have for the world. Secondary to finding out my own philosophy, I aim in this blog like Jean-Paul Sartre to "bring back philosophy to the streets." Though not literally to the streets because people simply don't read blogs in the streets-- I aim to bring philosophy to the "ordinary discourse" and for philosophy to exist in the "discourse of the ordinary."

Basically, what I have done in the past 2 blogs were introductions. Introductions are meant to have a glimpse at what is going to be in the longer course of the revelation of a "text" such as mine. I use "text" here not only to represent it being made up of words (DOY!), but so much so to portray that I assert that my blog is meant to have a "textuality". That my blog is though a philosophical journey wherein I seek to reveal and express my identity, but as well, my blog will be by virtue of me being a human being, be also a social document and a product of phenomenology of life as a subject. BIG TERMS I use, but there you go! Simply speaking that I seek to channel through my consciousness and rhetoric what I am in relation to myself, but at the same time in relation to the "other".

Going back to my dream, what kind of dream is that? The hell are you supposed to achieve that? It seems as if I have set myself up for disappointment and have simply pronounced my demise in the case I take this dream seriously. But nonetheless, I believe otherwise. IT CAN BE DONE!

If there's something I want to be known for or as the Ancient Greeks powerfully captures it in the ancient notion of immortality via one's word, that I brought philosophy to the ordinary person and that philosophy becomes a celebrated member of the ordinary.

How do I intend to do this?

The ultimate question on method. I would be inclined to tell you to wait and see, but with so much desire in my heart, I admit to have a low capacity to "delay gratification" as many emotional intelligence theorists depict, but at the same time attempt to claim my ability to "manage gratification" as I allow you a truly direct experience by only breathing life to my method through praxis without explicitly stating the theoria behind it. Take out your "close reading" lens and lay your surgical gazes on the short excerpts of my philosophical writing as I let me die unto your hands and hopefully let you resurrect my mortality (Take note as I not use immortalize) unto your own receptive and creative faculties...