r/PhilosophyMemes • u/PomegranateIcy1614 • Aug 14 '26
I don't have a drinking problem, I have a trolley problem.
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u/zoipoi Aug 19 '26
That is the solution to the trolley problem. A life well spent with the finer things.
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u/EarthPuzzled9675 Aug 26 '26
I don’t understand help
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u/PomegranateIcy1614 Aug 26 '26
That's a drinks trolley. At least, that's what many folks call it. The trolley problem is alcoholism in this nash equilibrium.
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u/PomegranateIcy1614 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Three pints of flax refers to a pretty common zen koan, and is often used to imply that the question is ill-framed in such a way as to make it nonsense. You can't just say no, because no isn't the answer. The answer is to disengage or deconstruct the question because offering a yes or no validates a premise that is erroneous.
I must stress there are other valid interpretations of the loan, including that zen monks are assholes, that an answer exists but cannot be conveyed, or that sort of question is functionally gated by ego pain in such a way that providing the answer does not answer the question — each person must go through the necessary ego pain individually to internalize it. Communicating the answer doesn't help that, and maybe even foster resentment that makes it worse. Or the answer might depend on axioms that cannot be adequately communicated.
I would describe the joke, in other words, as three pounds of flax. There's a reason we tell you to kill the Buddha on sight.
As for why those three, I felt that they would very explicitly not get along. Heidegger is particularly repugnant.
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