A little bit on philosophy

We think that because ideas are not material they have no importance: we cannot put them in our apartment or make use of them in an any immediate way.
However, although our modern world is obsessed with objects, it is based on ideas. The fact that you drive your car, go to a favorite cafe, meet friends, work, etc., is because your world is based on certain ideas. Whatever humans do, they do it because they think certain thoughts and not others, in this and not another way. Philosophy is the thought on thought: why do we think? Why do we think this idea and not the other one? How did this idea come to be? How does an idea change? What is an idea? And what human capacity makes it possible? Philosophy also wonders about reality and invents concepts to think it: capitalism or communism, deterritorialization, monads, aletheia, Gestell, etc.
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You may think these words do not relate to your everyday life but they shape it today in more ways you can imagine, create the future, and have already traced the past like wars or inventions did. Many people dismiss philosophy as something useless but if abstract thought is the privilege and the very engine of the human world then philosophy is one of the main subjects we should be interested in. In fact, there would be, say, no internet without the French Revolution, no French Revolution without the thinkers of Enlightenment, no Enlightenment without Renaissance thought and no Renaissance without Ancient Greek philosophy.
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Would there be even a BigMac without the idea of a hamburger?

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[Photo above by Vanessa Martins @parpadoscansados]

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