Borders

[Mapraputa Is]

In my local bookstore they moved "philosophy" section. It used to border on "music", now it borders on rest rooms. I wonder, is it a local initiative or a nation-wide action?
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[Guennadiy VANIN]

Tell me what is your nation and I tell you everything...

[Guennadiy VANIN]

Tell me youe nation

[Dave Vick]

Borders has a philosophy section ?!?

[Jason Menard]

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box.
Religion is a smile on a dog.
-- Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

[Thomas Paul]

Your bookstore has a "rest rooms" section? What kind of books do you find there? How to build a bedroom?

[Michael Ernest]

Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce

[Mapraputa Is]

Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce

I thought it's religion!

[Thomas Paul]

Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce

Sounds like life.

[Michael Ernest]

Philosophy might well divide into two general forms of religion: one academic, wherein "researchers" like Bhaskin eschew verbs and lump social criticism in with philosophy; and one sycophantic, where philosophy majors wear Hawaiin print shirts, quote Lacan, and leave biographies of Richard Feynman lying around to remind their fellow telemarketers that they've got life by the tail.
A lot of Bierce's definitions were good clean cynical fun, but some of his 'less funny' work does have a postmodern ring to it.

[Mapraputa Is]

I am in explanatory mood again, so...
For those outside of US: "Borders" is a big chain of bookstores. Any more or less big city has one (if I am mistaken here, somebody will correct me). I did not plan any pun initially, it happened when I was looking for a word "to put close to". Perhaps now it looks that playing with words was my main intention - it was not. I usually browse book titles in "Western philosophy" section when I am in Borders - it helps me think better about myself and supports my idealized self-image. Imagine my frustration, when I found "Eastern occultism and magic" - something like that - where western philosophy used to be. It was utterly offensive by itself, but no, it wasn't enough yet. Looking around, trying to figure out where they moved my psychotherapeutic kit, I spotted a small ghetto near rest rooms - yes, it was "Western philosophy". I used to sip "Derrida for idiots" in noble loneliness, now I found myself close to bi-directional flow of seeking to satisfy needs very alternative to self-actualisation, too close I would say. They were unified by their common goal; I was a social outcast. A silent questions was in their eyes, and their faces weren't sweet, gloomy and unfriendly were their faces...
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[Michael Ernest]

FYI: You can buy the books you like and take them home.

[Mapraputa Is]

I am not that selfish. I want others to read them also
Sounds like life
Deep thinking. Both philosophy and religion are epiphenomena of life, they are life trying to understand itself (forgot from whom I plagiarized it. Must be Michael ). So they naturally follow the same path - leading from nowhere to nothing.
Who are Bhaskin and Bierce? Myself never seen them in Borders.
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