The Huddersfield Philosophical Society
...as explained by Alain The Bottom
Who are you?
Hi. I'm TV's sexy philosopher Alain de Botton. Don't worry, I keep it 'lite'. Think of me as a sort of Jean Paul Madely.
What is when? And why?
I'm not up my own arse. I'm dead accessible. I want to reach the poor and uneducated, in the way modern theatre successfully does.
Did you just dream it?
A big influence on my early mind-career was a movement called the Huddersfield Philosophical Society.
Who the cock are they?
The HPS was a short-lived but vastly influential philosophical movement. Most great thinkers of today (I'm one of them) were influenced by it.
Are you taking the HPS?
Philosophers usually take a millionty years to arrive at a conclusion. Thats dull. But the HPS 'revolutionised'. They pinned down concepts in mere seconds. Then they moved on.
Sound like a bunch of old rectum?
The HPS let the gut do the thinking, leaving the brain free to watch NASCAR on Sky One.
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Why oh why oh why?
They were polemicists, primarily. They considered only extremes, the biggest, the smallest, the least rubbery, the most crocodilian.
I just don't care Mr Bottom. Will you ever shut up?
Only one recording of them at work survives but it does convey the essence of what their movement was all about. Have a listen...
