Philosopher, Spectator, Writer

Hume's image of Mind as a theater spectator is only a minor variation on Descartes' of it as an armchair observer.  It, thus, likewise, self-evidently falsifies Mind in the same manner that the latter does.  For, the immediate experience, of which each account is purportedly a faithful rendering, is not a passive private entertainment of some phenomena, but a social act of writing, i. e. what is immediately occurring when Descartes is describing the fire in front of him is that he is writing a book for others to read.  So, if either of these influential thinkers had recognized their functioning fundamentally as performers, it might not have been necessary later for Marx and Nietzsche to exhort philosophers to, if not change the world, at least legislate it.