We spend hours fighting over headlines, arguing about scandals and so-called “pressing social issues”. It feels urgent — but most of it changes nothing.
Meanwhile, the most important question is rarely asked: “How do we build a country where people are safe and can truly prosper?”
Plato wasn’t wasting his days gossiping about Athens. He asked: What is justice? What is the good society? Who should rule?
That’s why we still read him more than 2,000 years later — while today’s news will be forgotten next year (if not next week).
Philosophy isn’t an ivory tower hobby. It’s the art of asking the questions that matter — cutting through the noise and striking at the root of our problems.
If more people started thinking like philosophers, we could do more than win arguments. We could build a society that actually works, one that focuses on what truly matters.
This week, ask yourself: “Does this really matter? And what are the problems that do?”