Yes, I would urge all people with great curiosity, observation skills and desire to experiment and improve to take part in reading philosophy. I only caution p

Yes, I would urge all people with great curiosity, observation skills and desire to experiment and improve to take part in reading philosophy. I only caution people to be careful about rockstar-ifying any single philosopher or group thereof. The more you read, the more you learn the shape of philosophy. While any one philosopher might have a lot to say, it's really only the summary of them that makes it truly useful. It's easy to have your mind blown by one revealing thought from a paragraph or a book, like watching a one-line program execute. It's when all of the thoughts are put together and exercised that philosophy acts like a well-architectured object being designed in a well-architected program running on a well-architected operating system running on well-architected hardware which was developed using a well-architected program running on a ... And as this article points out, various groups of political interest in reframing any single philosopher's viewpoint.