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Subject: Work or play?
Philosophical dialogue may be compared to pressing the pause button during a movie in order to analyse and reflect upon the statement. Kids find this boring. They say: come on, let’s get on with the film! It’s boring to look at the same picture frame all the time! Yes, and it is boring to talk about the same thing for more than two seconds. Kids don’t like persistence and perseverance, nor self discipline and patience. But these are required in order to do philosophy. Or no?
Retention of strangeness is the only antidote to estrangement. T. W. Adorno