People who think their own thinking equals philosophy should try to read a few of the greats in the original language. I'm sick of people using "philosophy" as a synonym for vision, thought, strategy and other mental constructs.

Granted, philosophy itself has issues defining itself, and it might be a matter of scale/depth, but john doe's "philosophising about soccer" is an entirely different beast than let's take the forementioned Logischer Utersuchungen or Also sprach Zarathustra (or any of the other books from the "canon" of philosophy).

Also, equating it to literature is akin to equating literature to emails (yeah, both contain words) or a van gogh to painting by numbers (both use paint).

The interwebs have made people stupid

//rant