Firstly, there definitely are philosophical statements in your writing. I even pulled one out and explained it for you, but apparently you can't read.
Secondly, if you still think 'philosophy is just a bunch of people trying to justify their existence', you can't have understood anything I or others have written in the previous 140 odd posts. I'm not going to regurgitate it all just because you can't be bothered to look at it.
Thirdly, my family are pretty irrelevant for this discussion, but just to clarify I said 'fairly wealthy'. By that I meant we have a home in a decent part of London, and we get by OK. But my brother and I will have no jobs or money laid on for us like you imagine. My parents couldn't even if they wanted to. But we don't need it, we get where we want to go through hard work. My brother, who went to a state comprehensive, is currently doing the, (obviously, completely pointless) History degree at Oxford, and is thinking of going into IB after that. Indeed, my family's 'wealth' is its education, not money. But, I forgot!, money is the only thing that matters, isn't it?
Fourthly, I'm getting a little bored of our exchanges because all you ever do is ignore what I say and go off on a little inarticulated, unsubstantiated rant. When once have I mentioned religious zealots? Where did that come from? And you're angry I use questions without answers? It's called a rhetorical question. Not learn that in primary school? That was another one.
There was one little bit of interest in your post which was when you tried to do a little bit of philosophy. You said that because we're living through a relatively peaceful period we don't need philosophy. This assumes a lack of war is the primary measure of success for a society. It can be one, for sure, but there are others, I would argue, which are more important. For example, political movements, such as the lurch to the right which has taken place across Europe, the previously unimaginable vote for Brexit and the rise of Trump. These are all, I may add, only recent events. Science was also dominant throughout all the horrific events of the 20th century, from Nazism to the Kulags, to the scientists at german companies who perfected the concentration of gas for maximum killing capacity in the gas chambers.
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