Types people talk about – Philosophers

Colorful Characters

Philosophers

Whenever someone starts to talk about philosophers in general, somebody in the group says he thinks they’re a gloomy lot, always pointing out the follies of the past and predicting some sort of doom for the future. But what better is there to do than philosophize after our dancing days are done, and we nurse our sciatica by the fireside? And sooner or later we get around to reminiscing about colorful old-timers and comparing them with people today.

Those old-timers didn’t live under the current pressures; life was far more simple and people lived pretty much as they pleased. We think of many of them as “characters,” though they had a lot we don’t have because they retained the individuality with which they were born. Our own modern lives have honed even the roughest and toughest among us down to a nice round smoothness that not only gathers no moss . . . but is apt to wind up as nothing but sand.

So, when we speak of those old characters, we’re talking about people who stood for something and refused to be lost in the sands of the sea. Despite a few faults, there’s much to admire in the individuality of the lone wolves, the go-it-aloners, the dissenters, hermits and “aginers”.

How can we help but glory in the “colossal gall” of Mark Twain who put American vernacular into prose and color into conventional English; or admire Sinclair Lewis whose Main Street prodded the smallness out of our small towns; and do anything but revere Will Rogers. His candid comments wrapped with nothing but rope, could make even a king look like an ordinary kind of guy. And make him like it, too!

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