You haven't critiqued a damn thing, you're just trying to pick a fight by regurgitating something you heard in discussion group for your sophomore year philosophy class.
Oh, now that's just pathetic. Surely you can do better than that? I most certainly have critiqued your essay. My critique can be summed up in single sentence: Your essay is mired in Cartesian duality and ego-identification.
Seriously, is this really how you defend your ideas? By attacking anyone who criticizes them? By off handily dismissing education and the pursuit of knowledge? Do you just not get how pathetic that is? It's like admitting you're an intellectual lightweight who can't hold their own in a debate.
I really have to wonder at the quality of the mind that vomits up rebuttals like "Nuh-uh, you only think that because you went to college!" as a defense. What a baby you are. Maybe I should go get you a binkie and pacifier.
What position am I supposed to be defending?
Fucking pay attention dipshit, I've already told you twice now: The mind-body dualism and ego-identification invoked throughout your essay.
You can't even articulate what point you believe I'm trying to make with the essay... so what's to discuss?
I think I could articulate your point, better than you have at least, but in order to articulate your point I would have to make a long series of assumptions. The first assumption I would have to make is that
you do not mean what you have said, and that you have not said what you mean.
But I don't like doing that. I prefer to read what people have written and assume it means what it says. Because if I assume that others do not mean what they have said, and that they have not said what they mean, I am essentially thinking for them, and not actually listening to them. I'm pretty sure I know what you
meant (and I'm not impressed at all, as it's neither a new nor exciting idea), but I'm far more fascinated by the train wreck of
how you expressed the idea.
What you said is a bunch of unintelligent tripe, the sort of bargain basement philosophy churned out by brain-dead stoners who should've spent more time focusing on their studies and less time contemplating their navel.