Colorful Characters With No Character

Talking about the abstract and the concrete, the immaterial pretending to be material, and the material pretending to be immaterial.
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[@Paul...Ego_sum_ergo_aedifico]

Thank you for discussing those books and your reflections on things. On color: I enjoy b&w movies because they draw one's focus to fine details, such those in the human face. In a color film, I believe that a lot of neural effort is expended on the colors, which can ( and often sadly does ) allow the filmmaker to skimp on substance. The same for photography. There is something about a b&w picture, especially by a master such as Ansel Adams, that puts it in a dimension of its own.

[@unknownhollow4141]

I think your content is a colorful contribution to the stale and pale landscape that youtube has become. So many public ''intellectuals'' have been repeating the same ways of thinking for so many years now. Maybe it's like Alan Watts said: if you think all the time you have nothing to think about except thoughts. Ironically, quotes are the living dead.
So I wonder: don't you think that all philosophy/thinking/modeling reality is a corpse in Plato's Cave? Therefore, I'm curious to know your perspective on negative philosophy: to unlearn, to be spontaneous/free from thought. The philosophy to quit philosophy, because thinking about life is not living life itself, But maybe you see that as color without form and you prefere the middle way.
Anyway, as you can read, you've inspired me. Thank you!

[@Kasperanzaa]

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it!
Yes, I'd have to say that negative philosophy is certainly color without form. It reminds me of a lecture on Foucault where I learned that he wanted to free the body from the soul rather than soul being freed from the body as Plato would prefer.
Ayn Rand has a book called "Philosophy: Who Needs It." She basically argued that everyone needs a philosophy, and the people that think they don't need a philosophy end up being ruled by a monstrous conglomerate philosophy. In other words, if you don't think for yourself someone will think for you. Philosophy is inescapable.
But there's definitely a good point to be made that people who overthink are really thinking about thoughts themselves and not reality. I certainly struggle with this since I feel safe retreating into my own mind rather than going out and living. I'd almost say that when I do philosophy I don't do it to live, I do it because it's a hobby. Thinking, regardless of how valuable or useful it is, is just fun.
I think it's just a matter of proper integration. People may have a preference for one over the other, but a human being is a soul and a body, while a monster is a mystical ghost or a mindless zombie, a sacrificial Christian or a greedy Marxist; or as Ayn Rand would say, a Witch Doctor or an Attila.