Is it a blessing in disguise that modern society doesn't

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Is it a blessing in disguise that modern society doesn't take philosophy seriously?

If they tried to -- lacking the strength for recognising the primacy of philosophers of the Spinoza, Stirner, Nietzsche, Alex Kierkegaard type -- they would glorify only those who appease the majority's weaknesses, state-sanctioned. Perhaps even those who provide the greatest antidote to the aforementioned, the corruptions (as Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Foucault are for Nietzsche).

Instead with philosophy's disregard or ridicule, we at least have that a chaotic laise faire liberal realpolitik political mess, that allows elitism to thrive in the fields where the masses have no immediate grasp. (Our culture continues to grow because in the midst of democratic political degeneration a few individuals proudly and unapologetically continue the tyrannical, despotic tradition in businesses, armies, universities, sports teams, cultural clubs, the arts, and so on. If democracy were instituted in every field of human endeavor — instead of merely in politics — with the soldiers voting on what the army should do, students the school and universities, workers the business, the uncultured the arts, etc., civilization on this planet would be wiped out within a generation, and we would revert to barbarism — if we didn't all starve to death well before that, that is, which we so obviously would.)