Post by Gabby on Jan 2, 2011 14:04:06 GMT
Without either survivors exist in a reactionary knee-jerk state of fear, flailing around aimlessly to avert the current crisis and would be better off as zombies.
In which case, we're taking philosophy to mean a lot more than it's usually taken to mean, as it now appears to be zombie apocalypse self-help. If anything, I'd argue that philosophy is doing nothing to optimise your comfort. You're other creating new problems to worry about, or discovering truth, which is never very happy-inducing.
And this then returns to your point about the education side of things being rather overshadowed by the "shooting in the face" side.
