CONTROLS: Click and drag the lid of the box in front of you

Käfer is German for Beetle.

Ludwig Wittingstein's beetle in a box is one of his philosophical musings. This one questions how we talk about how we feel/what we feel. And in it, there is a box that is labled to contain a beetle. If everyone got one box and everyone had a different thing inside, we would still call that thing a beetle since that is the word given to us to describe it. 

It is not about knowing what the other's boxes contain, it is about recognising that it may differ from what I have in my box aka that other people's experiences may be fundamentally unlike mine. I cannot, just by considering my own beetle, make adequate conclusions about your beetle. 

I have been reading too much philosophy in the past three weeks. 

You can also just throw the lid around, go live your best life.

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AW the beetle is so cute! I also like the philosophical musing, I've not heard of that before and I don't quite get it but it's nice :3