UniversalAlien wrote:Do political commercials in the USA prove that democracy does not work?

Nope, only that gullible worker voters can be brainwashed by endless repetition to vote against their interests, cut their own throats, so to speak.

EMTe wrote:I have an aunt, simple and uneducated person. And she always tells me: go finish your studies, find better job, find a woman, get married, have children and stop talking ******** and thinking too much.

So, is the world viewed this way philosophy or not?

Philosophy is thinking, reading, comparing, everything about life and goals --- except doing.

Your grandmother is definitely the doing kind.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

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