Political Philosophy

I always found philosophy to be a useless intellectual artifact. To me, philosophy, especially political philosophy, is two people arguing about how to feed the starving man begging at their feet. Just give him some fucking fish already.

However, last year, writer Michael Lewis gave a commencement speech at Princeton, and he said something beautiful that resonated with me. It's become the closest thing to a political philosophy I have because it's rooted in reality and facts on the ground. This is what he said:

"Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky."

You're damn right we do.