Philosophical Anachronism
We’ll Never Stop Thinking of New Sh*t.
Anachronism /əˈnakrəˌnizəm/ (n.): a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
The central goal of the philosopher is to tap into timeless mysteries: to read through books of all ages and eras, analyzing behaviors that’ve been around since the exposition of our mortal story.
Philosophy — if done right — is an experience of eternal wisdom about everything and anything we can possibly know; a way to peer behind the curtain, back and forth between worlds, and look at every bit of humanity at once.
One day, philosophers will draft books about our present time with their future perspectives….
We don’t know what they’ll write about us: what kind of problems they’ll need to fix, what concepts they’ll preserve — just that it’ll happen.
We can support forthcoming thinkers by making our ongoing worldviews as clear and timeless as possible: something the internet makes a slice of cake.
Like the world wide web, philosophy has always been a conversation threaded through time, one which humanity built but surely doesn’t understand.
The WWW is greater than a social interface: It’s an augmentation of how we comprehend reality.
The internet has always been a library of its user’s ideas, one written by its own volition….
The entirety of recorded history is in our pockets, accessible and shareable with a few taps. We can send or receive messages among anyone alive: past, present or future…. so how then must we use it?
Anachronism comes from the ancient Greek roots: ana “backwards” + khronos “time”;
the modern usage is characterized by, in either direction of time: something that stands out as “not of the appropriate period”.
This word☝️ is quite literally far-reaching, i.e., philosophy is inherently anachronistic: ancient metaphysics can be admissible in our modern world, and certain concepts can last forever.
The past is a memory and tomorrow is a dream, but everywhere all at once is attached to a theoretic present where people and things actually exist.
And with no rules for how philosophy behaves through time other than physical constraints, we could justifiably say the internet is the ultimate philosophical bootstrap (being a global/universal liaison of ideas).
Philosophers are always speaking to every generation.
If you really read it, you’ll realize that time doesn’t pass in philosophy: It’s framed by endlessly flowing intelligence….
