Wittgenstein used to be on my mind, but I try to stop it these days

The most important thing I heard from him was that philosophy is like a ladder and once you had climbed the ladder, it was not useful any more (Bruce Lee said the same thing about a boat to cross a river).

Far be it for me to say that I have arrived on the right side of the river, or even that there is a right side, but I can’t help but feel that all this language and logic and philosophy and argument does not get us very far.

If anything, although I originally thought Wittgenstein was brilliant for his thorough breakdown of everything that is, I start more and more to think that he and his kind are all frauds, cheating people like me into thinking you can put everything perfectly into words and figure it all out. Then you just spend a long long time trying and failing (and calling it philosophy!)…

I am trying for a more zen approach now. The middle path with fewer distinctions and values and ups and downs, lefts and rights, hots and colds…

Everything just is…

Suits me fine!

Thanks for the stimulation Alexis. Off to have a bath now