Having a
Ph.D before was very enticing because it was one way to have progress
economically. Investing money to have a title that creates all the more class
distinctions among humans and moreso, in terms of salary and fluidity in
promotions has led a slight derogatory remark on the word itself philosophy.(If
I got it right, sophistry is the accurate word for it) The case is different to
those who will pursue a doctorate degree which is purely philosophy because in this educational system, we have become
irrelevant to the demand of the times, especially that the world needs someone
to cut steel, assemble pipes and spice up pork chops. We have become totally
irrelevant in a technologically oriented world. The queen of all sciences is
pushed into a corner where the industry needs us as a number in a TOR. As a
queen, we sit flat on our bottoms while the world pleases us, but monarchy now
appears as passe and we shall be dethroned soon. Our expertise (as how our
title defines it, but in fact we do not even claim absolutely that we are) in
Being, Time, Phenomena, Noumenon, Geisteswissenschaften and many others are but
insignificant in handling a client with credit problems or generating a
computer program. The common person cannot appreciate the beauty of Kant's
Introduction, Hegel's preface nor even Lao Tzu's Tao because no jobs are
offered for those who study these people. Maybe, we can just say that our Ph.D
will be a mark that tells us that we have reached this far in our quest for
knowledge and we want more. Impractical as it sounds once we say that we only
finished it for knowledge sake, but that is how we are fulfilled. Maybe we are
not meant to be useful at all inside the machinery. Although the heart and the
brain are different, but maybe philosophy is a brain having a heart and a heat
having a brain and that ours in not a struggle to just be finding ways inside
an economically driven world but it is a struggle to finally junk struggle
itself so that we can free ourselves from this world that does not need us.
Maybe we are just lavishing still the very joy of the first homo sapien, the
very first time that a beautiful thought dawned on the first man and trying our
best to be rigorous and at the same time a little bit mystical in a way so that
we can manage to feel what was forgotten. As the world is moving on, here we
are stuck, finding the very first AHA moment. Ph.D is one step, futile to the
machine because we were not a part of one before. Our philosophizing is a
continuous remembrance of the day we became enlightened, and soon, once
knowledge becomes readymade and technological, it will be an age of blindness.
Knowledge will become a call to order, a standing reserve, not any more thought
of, but grabbed and copy pasted. However, we who commemorate it will never
forget the time when we saw how beautiful our thoughts are and we shall
remember that day always every time we philosophize.
Last 2012, there were hearts on fire that both had their first shared flame in an unlikely place. I was thirsty for love coming from being dormant while she was searching for a redemption from a series of broken hearts. Both struggled to find their place. Both trying to live their lives free from the hideous chains of a dark home. I must admit that I fell for her beauty and add to that, her care. As we both clasped our hands, it was a committed long shot to have the perfect rest for our hearts. It was a bit strange to have an affair under the noses of all that is forbidden both profession and a line of faith. Nothing was wrong as long both were in the ecstasy of love – no malice, no foul play, no trespassing of wills. That moment was a perfect episode in a romantic film – one where young love sprang amidst treacherous circumstances. We lived through the happiness of newfound belongingness and the battle of keeping that alive. 4 years before the wedlock were filled with ups an...
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