#I keep it seperate mostly as an organizational thing

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I actually accidentally reblog things here instead of my other blog but I always note how receptive people are when I reblog other folks' art on here (Which is exciting art is exciting I love seeing what other folks love) but uh long way of saying if you want more pretty art photos etc that are inspiring I reblog a lot of that on my side blog @hauntedhunt

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therapy today included me:

- theorizing that my social needs/wants/abilities have gone, during the pandemic, from me having regressed to middle school of only talking to a few people (although much less toxic!!!!) and not wanting to interact with anyone else and being vaguely afraid of interacting with anyone else, to high school of me interacting with a few people i know in person (but now its virtual just i KNOW them from in person) and yet wanting to interact with strangers online from a fandom-forward or special-interest-forward perspective rather than like.... where are we where are we in life and whatever that is Normal Interaction

- requesting to go back to once/week rather than twice/week because im getting like therapy claustrophobic. its going Too Fast and i Need A Break. Accellerated Healing did not work

- talking about my old job and how im really struggling to move forward partially because there are so many seperate threads or like, seperate stories that are All True but not fully complete (like, i moved across the country for a job and felt isolated in the new place and struggled to make friends and to get fulfillment mostly from the job itself, and then it didnt work out so i went back home. or i started a new job and was not welcomed into the workplace as a queer person and felt separate from the other staff and struggled to integrate into the workplace community and conversation and left. or i started my first new job and had organizational issues partly because of ADHD and did not find adequate supports but also didn't successfully push myself through it to do better and ended up being put on a performance plan and let go. and i started my first job and then got let go because of the pandemic. and then the mental health story. and more. and all are true, and mix together, but i dont know where to go from there with ALL of them at ONCE its overwhelming and i dont know how to know if i would succeed at another job or succeed at another job in the jewish field or with students or anything or how much was on them vs on me or what i can do from there and there's no blueprint, theres no story i can read about someone who went through the same thing and made it out, and it reminds me of not being able to find queer stories that show me what someone like me might do with themselves with their lives for their love for happiness for success for survival

- then i transitioned to talking about this post and how different books, specifically ari & dante, ella enchanted, and red white and royal blue, show this. and that the hardest part for me isnt knowing what word to use for myself but thinking about what im even looking for or wanting in my life, if a romantic/sexual partner is something i even want or should keep in my mind as i plan for my future or if its not, because i would change how i thought about and went through my life if i knew for sure i didnt want that but i DONT so im sitll here questioning how i feel about certain friendships, still here feeling alone rather than just content with what i have and planning only close FRIENDSHIPS and platonic closeness around my life in the future rather than imagining a hypothetical partner. thinking about myself as 24 years single vs thinking about myself as having checked the box of that part of life, and literally not worrying about it anymore. thinking about myself as late blooming vs as just, done and complete already.

-also talked about how much i love aristotle and dante and ella enchanted in particular but especially ari & dante and then benjamine alire sáenz himself and his story and last night i sang to the monster

- how i dont know how i'll ever get the answers to the do-i-want-a-life-partner-like-that question becasue the only way to do it is to actually kind of, experience/expirement with where im at with another person who would need to be 1) okay with that/into that, knowing i dont know 2) need to KNOW that i dont know which means id need to tell them 3) someone that i am feeling the confusing feelings i experience sometimes for, meaning a close friend? dnt wanna ruin that???

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We Shouldn’t Seperate Philosophy and Practice

For optimizing efficiency, outcomes, and benefits, we should give philosophy a central place in any kind of organization or proces. Someone who keeps asking, without any judgement: what the heck are we actually doing, and why? In the following series of articles I will explain why, what, and how together we can get to a better understanding and a better integration of theory and practice, so that we can reach maximum efficiency of anything we’re doing, whilst keeping our values intact.

There’s two competing camps: the Philosophy Department vs Down-To-Earth Practitioners

Philosophy has never been widely respected as a method of analyses and improvement. That’s because philosophers have often excluded themselves from practical reality as an elitist culture. It’s time for philosophy to live up to her own standards and starts contributing to practical society.

What we have at the moment are two separate ways of teaching philosophy. They don’t coincide, don’t have much to do which each other, and above all keeps philosophy out of any relevant practice.

On the one hand we have the philosophic academy, that we’ve discussed above, mostly investigating and discussing the mind and its theoretical possibilities, but not really considering any practical notions. On the other hand there’s the studies that we could call practical (disregarding the possible theoretical setup of these studies), like organizational studies, law, and communication.

You can’t make someone understand the fundamentals of anything in a brief series of lectures

Within each of these practical studies there’s a tiny part reserved for “Philosophy”. Most of the time it’s a once-in-a-lifetime course about the questions of fundamental theories underlying the concerning subject matter. People hardly ever get the relevance of this course. People complain about it, that it’s horrible, that they don’t understand a thing, and try to forget about it as soon as they’ve passed their exam.

It’s like asking the ice cream guy why his ice cream tastes like ice cream…

The aversion to philosophy is a very logical reaction, precisely because the philosophy course is a stand-alone course which students follow for a couple of weeks. During these weeks, students are plunged into a world of existential limits and the fundamental and complex ideas underlying their field of work. This is not something you can just do to people. You cannot just suddenly start about the philosophical aspects of anything without proper preparation and guidance. You cannot teach somebody a framework of ideas in a couple of weeks. Dozens of philosophers have devoted their lives to coming up with ideas and frameworks about how things should work, and we expect to summarize all that in a comprehensive 3-month course? You confront people with the sense of it all, with the question “why does something exist in the first place and why does it work the way it does?”. I don’t think you can ask someone this during work hours, so to speak.

Philosophy and practice don’t understand each other

There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding on both sides. Society doesn’t know what philosophy has to offer, and philosophers are not really wanted because ‘all they do is dreaming and talking about incomprehensible fugazi’. Indeed, fugazi doesn’t exist. Forgive me for being biased (as I have a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy), but I blame the philosophers more than I blame society. I blame philosophers for not making a combined effort to show society what she can do and how she can help to fix fundamental problems in society. I don’t blame society, then, for not understanding that there is a practical, very realistic side to philosophy.

To be continued…

Next time I will consider the institutional role in the misunderstanding between philosophers and practical society. We will see how the university academies keep the elite position of philosophy intact and leaves no room for new ideas or practical improvement.