I think, therefore...

I just read an article that told me: 'Today is World Philosophy Day'.

The first philosophical question I have about this is: if I read this article today, does that mean that today is World Philosophy Day? Even though the article was published yesterday?

The second: who cares?

Don't get me wrong, I love philosophy. I spend hours thinking about all sorts of philosophical questions, and I usually come up with new and interesting answers to them as well. In fact, based on an intelligence test I took, I was once described as a 'Visionary Philosopher'. Whatever that may mean.

I'm just wondering about the timing of this article. You see, I have checked the online newsfeeds several times yesterday. In the morning, in the afternoon, and even in the evening. Yet this article was not there, I only found it this morning. This means that some dimwit of a BBC-reporter thought it was only interesting news at 9:30 pm (GMT).

In a totally unrelated newsarticle, by the way, doctors have claimed that an American teenage girl has survived for 118 days without a heart. I'm not sure, but it seems to me that the current US President has now succeeded that feat for nearly 8 years...

I suppose the true philosophical nature of this blog entry is: what is news, anyway? The first article, although it was news to me, clearly wasn't for the journalist who wrote the piece. Yet the second, which I didn't find at all groundbreaking, was apparently of huge interest to someone (besides the girl, that is). Who decides these things?

My conclusion: news is fickle and subjective... so perhaps it's time to pay less attention to it, and start concentrating on more interesting things. Such as the question whether I truly exist, or whether I just think that I do...

And now it's time to crawl back into my cave, if you forgive me my Platonic allegory...