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Plato's Job: Decide Whether Cake is Better Than Pie

My favorite cake is cheese-cake, but I don't really consider that cake, so I'll say carrot cake, but it has to have a lot of cream cheese frosting so maybe that's still cheese-cake, so what do you mean by cake?, I can't really say I don't like cake, or maybe I don't like what other people call cake, is Boston Cream Pie really pie, because I always thought it was really cake, so maybe that's my favorite cake but it's called a pie - I sure do like pie! - Oh, and PUDDING! 


Recently, while re-reading Bertrand Russell's, "A History of Western Philosophy", I found myself, initially at least, agreeing pretty much with everything those old thinkers had to say.  After all, everyone is entitled to their opinion and everyone's opinion is as 'real' as mine.  Then I started thinking more about their mental gymnastics and resulting conclusions, and realized that many, if not most, tended to contradict each other.  The philosophers contradicted each other, and the conclusions of individual philosophers contradicted each other.  I looked at these conclusions and realized that if I set them side by side, and then interrelated them, in various ways, with my current speculations on reality, I could make them internally consistent and agreeable to each other.  I started putting a paper-clip on the page of each philosopher who needed my help, with the intention of going back later and putting my thoughts to paper and pencil.  I gave up when the binding of the book broke, (I love alliteration).


Seriously though, if I lived 100 years ago I would probably still have the same job I had then.  ? ?  ? ?