Marco Rubio told the world that ‘welders earn more than philosphers.

…some of the liberal pundits were incensed at that statement but that is only becuz they haven’t a clue as to what actually defines a philospher…

Anyway, you hardly ever see a help wanted ad for philosphers ’n if you did, it ‘ud undoubtedly be a minimum wage job  which, if you’re inclined to such a position, I’m sure you’d be able to work out a rationale….sort’a like when you’re a boy ’n you seriously want to grow up to be a fisherman/philospher like Uncle Louie…

Uncle Louie wuz a philospher/fisherman who took a small nip now ’n then from a metal flask that he kept in his tackle box…he almost never caught any fish, he hardly ever dipped a line in the water and I never even knew a time when he actually took his boat to the river…he had a really great boat that set on blocks in front of the house…I think his rationale wuz that if he wuz to put the boat in the water, it ‘ud  require cleaning when he took it out…same rationale for his fishing gear…if he’d used it, he wuz gonna have to clean it so keeping it in the tackle box in the workshop seemed to work pretty well for him…

‘Course, that was just Uncle Louie philosphizing…Come to think on it, I never knew Uncle Louie to do any ‘real’ stuff at all, he mostly spent his time in his workshop tinkering and philosphizing ’n it seemed to work for him…I s’pect if he’d wanted any welding done, he wud have paid for it but I never knew him to make a dime philosphizing…don’t believe he gave that a lot of thought...

Now if those libeal pundits had simply known Uncle Louie, they wudn’t have made such a simple mistake becuz it’s pretty darn obvious that welding or most any similar job wud just have to pay more than philosphizing…even tho’ actual work doesn’t have quite the same cachet ’n you all know how important cachet is when it comes to living a satisfying life...

Evidently, those pundits think that a ‘philospher’ is someone who studied philosphy at an institution of ‘higher’ learning and got a degree that calls them a philospher.  Sort of like the Liberal Arts degrees that are so popular today…

I spoke with a young lady not too long ago who wuz majoring in ‘Black Studies’…I wuz a little surprised becuz in the first place, she wudn’t black or even African American altho’ when I think about it, I don’t suppose that’ud be a necessary requirement…

Way back in the middle of the last century, Black Studies wud have been the equivalent of ‘Underwater Basket Weaving’…which is what we simple folk in days of yore wud have called a degree in philosphy.  

You wudn’t gonna find those jobs in any Help Wanted section of the newspapers of that day…’course, I don’t think students of today search the ‘Help Wanted’ ads with the fervency of the youth of yesteryear…I’m not even sure if such a thing as Help Wanted’ ads still exist…if they do, they’re ‘online’ and way beyond my simple skills…

Anyway, one doesn’t become ‘A Philospher’ by studying philosphy, one becomes a philospher by living…if you live long enuff that you begin to wonder what in the name of Hell is keeping you alive when friends ’n family are all dying around you, then by the grace of God and fortune, you’ve become a philospher…

And there ain’t a damn thing you c’n do about it!