In every college
philosophy course, there seems to be at least one student who's completely
engrossed in the topic and ends up hijacking every class discussion. This may
be true for every subject to an extent, but it seems especially relevant to
philosophy.
In a course I once
took, there was a monologue-prone man who always did this and kept making jokes
about Georg Hegel that nobody understood. In another, there were two
students who would always play conversational tug-of-war. One was a hilarious
stoner whose mind was constantly blown by the ideas introduced (he was
basically a real-life version of the Keanu Reeves meme--and no, I don't mean he
actually was Keanu Reeves). The other was a conservative Christian
fundamentalist who was offended by most topics and heavily disapproved of
Stoner Dude's enthusiasm. They'd go back and forth all the time.
And in the first
philosophy course I ever took, it was me. I totally was That Person Who Never
Shut Up. So, my apologies to anyone who was there.
