Jordi Wild asks Carlos Blanco for his top 5 philosophers

Jordi Wild asks Carlos Blanco for his top 5 philosophers

What is Carlos Blanco's top 5 philosophers? The question, posed by Jordi Wild to a 40-year-old interlocutor who is likewise without descendants, remains unanswered. The one asking is 41 and has left no heirs either. That's the extent of the facts.

The conversation has been running for 126 days and has barely made a ripple. Among the silences, one intervention with the air of an epitaph: it doesn't matter how much you philosophize or think you've discovered, the end is the same, and only the DNA of those who have reproduced will continue under the sun. Another, more cybernetic voice remarks that YouTube is spying on you. Two ways of saying that thought has an expiration date.

Philosophy leaves no biological trace

The harshest argument in the exchange doesn't debate schools or names: it dismisses the question itself. If immortality doesn't exist and the brain rots, what's the point of a ranking of wise men? That biological current clashes with the simple curiosity of knowing which five thinkers someone who dedicates their life to ideas would save. The official top 5 appears nowhere.

A silence that is also an answer

That the question has gone unanswered for months says as much as any list. In an age of eternal content, the absence of a reply is the real datum: neither the man concerned nor the audience has closed the matter. The question remains open. Who knows whether one day someone will reveal their particular pentacle of pre-Socratics, existentialists or utilitarians. Meanwhile, the DNA carries on its course and, according to some, so does YouTube.