In philosophy, I have been insisting on this point for several months: there is a deeply ingrained belief that philosophy and philosophers are the true creators of thought. However, this is not entirely accurate. Philosophers create structures of thinking and opinions that hinge on those structures, but they are not the creators of the reality that moved them to think in alignment with those structures.
Behind them lies a power—often hidden, concealed, or even supernatural—that pushes toward certain drifts by using financial and military forces to support this central power, never unhinged from spiritual and supernatural visions, which align themselves with geopolitical plans and strategies of domination.
The best examples of this are Nihilism and nihilist thinkers of the calibre of Nietzsche and Heidegger, just to name a couple.
Ultimately, this is the framework within which every thinker lives and elaborates their ideas.
Philosophy is never immune to external influences, contrary to what we are accustomed (or pleased) to think. It is less risky and easier to commit reasoning to established structures because thinkers—or labourers of thought, such as university professors of philosophy—operate within the same structures (universities, foundations, publishers, media outlets...) created ad hoc by the power I mentioned above.
Philosophers and labourers of thought live on the bread bestowed by that power or, in some cases, are even actively involved in its workings.
When we analyze the thought of a philosopher, we must never lose sight of this perspective. If we move from this perspective, we can better understand how nihilism, for example, was the most powerful weapon developed over the centuries to destroy Christianity.
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