I have learned two things on Twitter. One is that professional athletes need constant stimulation. If they're not playing their sport or a video game, they have no idea what to do with themselves. The second is that there are some incredibly witty people out there. To prove my point, check out some of this hilarious Twitter thread going on right now combining philosophy and music.
My contributions: The Smiths' "William James, It Was Really Nothing"; Mill's "On Libertines", Lady Miss Kierkegaard, ColdPlato, Led Zepicurus
Some of the other totally genius contributions (skipping over all the very funny but a little-too-easy Kant and Locke jokes):
This Town Ain't Big Enough For Boethius
Naughty by Nietzsche
Socratic Method Man
Bend it like Bentham
Sir Isaac Newton John- Let's Get Metaphysical
You Spinoza me right round, baby, right round.
Total Eclipse of the Sartre
The Disposable Heroes of Hippocrates
Cornerschopenauer
The Logical Positivist Song - Supertramp
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hegel
The Sextus Empiricus Pistols
The Communards' Manifesto
Love Will Voltaire Us Apart
The Rights Of Manfred Mann
The Tractatus Logico-philosophicus Of My Tears
Engels by Robbie Williams
(Incidentally, I bumped into an interesting Twitter etiquette question while doing this. I was going to cite each suggestion's author, but is that proper? If someone puts it on Twitter, and their account isn't locked, should I assume they're okay with their text not just being retweeted, but being put on the web? Is there a difference?)
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