Why as philosophy gotten more and more cringe the closer you

>>1940819
Can you elaborate on that?

>>1940823
>2,000 years ago
>what is the meaning of life
>1 year ago
>how do I be a perfect boyfriend

Philosophy and science were born in the same cradle, from the same fathers. Eventually science got too far ahead. 2 thousand years ago you had to explain the model of the universe and your views on soul and life after death in the same book. Not anymore.

This is the same thing as people saying that new music sucks. You're not reading shitty old philosophy or good new philosophy.

>>1940826
>what is the meaning of life.
>2000 years ago
Existentialism is modern as fuck and only properly came into existence in the past 200 years.

2000 years ago people were generally happy to believe that the meaning of life was whatever god said it was. As a matter of fact the question is only relevant because atheism is a thing.

If anything Western philosophy has improved in the last century. Not only is philosophy itself more naturalist and healthy but the masses at large (and also those towering above them) ignore most degenerative tenets of academic philosophy in practice, while praising their 'virtues' in words alone.

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>>1940826
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>>1940819
History prunes and filters the garbage out through refinement and omission. What you perceive as a degeneration may be the result of this process.

Example:

Gilgamesh, as told by star-trek is an epic about friendship and shared struggle in the face of death.

Gilgamesh, as told by the source material is a painfully repetitive story about blowjobs and how women cause all the worlds problems even if you can't see how they are doing so because they're goddesses that no one likes.

Consider the pre-socratics.

Everything is (substance) is not terribly robust. However some are admittedly well argued.

Argumentation as an art may have been more robust in ancient times due to the absence of alternative time consuming data streams.

No internet, no tv, no radio, no mass printing, means that which is circulated must stand without review or feedback for perhaps the entire life of the argument.

Similarly, the fable of Stańczyk (pic related), demonstrates that while good argument may be recorded, it may not achieve ascendency in the record until it is too late and the overvalued noise surrounding it dies away. The same may apply to modern philosophic tradition.