Does Europe need Hegel more than ever before?

Consumer societies don't recognize genius.

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I have studied this man for 2 and a half years and I still cannot figure out what the fuck he was on about

Why should we ?

>>1167193
Neither did the earlier ones, unless you are only talking about everything above a certain social class.

>>1167191
Why do you autist milennials have so much difficulty in expressing a complete (or really any type of) thought? WTF do you mean by that?

>>1167214
I read a very short introduction to Hegel. It was quite good/understandable although I'm a philosophy layman.

>>1167622
Shut up grampa.

>>1167214
maybe because there isnt anything to actually "get" from Hegel

>>1167622
Were you really born before 1980? I feel like a lot of people here misuse the word millennial.

we need the singularity more than anything

No, Hegel is part of the cancer. But in all fairness, he is nonetheless a brilliant thinker.

He was literally original Marxist.

>>1169397
Most people here and the internet in general clearly uses it for people born in the 21 century.

>>1169690
Nah Marxism is upside down Hegelianism. Hegel was a revolutionary pro-enlightenment philosopher though, thus far from conservative.

>>1167191
Extremely overrated in certain circles.

Hegel was the proto-SJW