With this essay, I seek to try to find a balance between the things that philosophy can teach us and what our pratical world can teach us. A good piece of writing should approach a problem with depth without becoming too snobby or too complex, and allow us to relate with us. At the same time, theory should be used to give our arguments weight, and to give us a broader perspective. First, let's investigate the pratical world.

As we all live in the pratical world, it is best understood by most of us, although often we miss essential connections between different world events. We see a world filled with pickup trucks, cows, and people—and not theories of symbolic interactionism and phenomonology, even if those theories go a long way to our understanding of the world around us.

The pratical world is limited in many regards, as we all live in slightly different worlds, and therefore we percieve things differently. That cow I see in the field, will look different to you then to me. Your experience has trained you to see it differently, as your interactions with cows will inevitably different then my own. Already, a seemingly innocent symbol has lead into a discussion of theory of symbolic interactionism. Yet, in such a discussion I avoided the use of big words and complex theories—I just made you think how you see differently then I do, in a way that almost anyone can understand.

We also live in a place where theory is always relevant, as previously demostrated. Theory gives us perspective, it allows us to take existing knowledge and expand upon it to predict the future. It is not always perfect and often encourages swweping generalizations that can prove to be untrue, but we must exploit it to the best of our ability. We should not be blinded by theory, and we should not use it as a way to live our lives on up to.

If you are blinded by theory, it's likely that your argument will start sounding like a rant or it will appear that your posturing yourself as a demagod. If people do not understand your argument on it's face, they will either ignore it or dismiss it as being little more then rambling on about stuff. Organization is a key for making people understanding what you say, but it's certianly not limited to that.

Theory also runs the risk of promoting demogogary or the belief that you are morally right, because you can cite many fancy theorists. It takes your voice away and puts the voice of authority in it, depersonalizing and making it somebody who it isn't.