Academic Philosophy = Death

Philosophy is the making of theories, badly or occasionally better, with sets of concepts. It resembles fiction, poetry and literature and theology in certain ways in so far as the author uses his imagination and intuition to produce a set of ideas that may or may not attempt to refer to and/or represent or reflect and create a certain reality or life-world. It differs from fiction and is relatively unique in so far as it employs reasoning, argumentation and other philosophical tools. It seems as if philosophy is self-incestuous (verbal masturbation), conceptual games with and about concepts using propositions, reasoning and argumentation to make assertions about other concepts (as if the lion is trying to speak, attempting to convey to us what he thinks and how he experiences his life-world), and thereby produce insular, enclosed, self-referential, circular systems of ideas.