On the Marginalization of Philosophy

Pragmatic concerns are infused in contemporary philosophical method. That is one need earn a living, and control of Internet Communications for profit are quite real. If one writes philosophical analysis of society from a minority (intellectual) point of view it is inevitable that the managerial class will close that down eventually. As an independent writer in the U.S.A. I have experienced being banned from Helium.com and presently gather.com is frozen down after acquisition by Health Guru Media. There aren’t too many places to write philosophy for pay. Ghost Bloggers said my first post on the ‘Incoherence of Evolution Theory in Politics’ was incoherent.

If one tries to explain that lies do not inevitably harm people, but it is the lack of knowledge of the receiver of false data that is potentially harmful, the difference is too complex for the managerial class that thrives on populism and the need to reinforce cliche. If an individual hears a lie yet recognizes the lie having knowledge of the truth how has the individual been harmed? While putting out false data is wrong generally, analytic philosophers at least ought to have an opinion cognizant of Quine’s work in Ontological Relativity and keep a social epistemology theory that allows somewhat more existentialist subjectivism to individual responsibility regarding language meaning.

I believe that the problem of modern corporatism and networking will tend to marginalize philosophical thought. The managerial class is politically castrated a priori in order to advance in the business world wherein a happy peaceful repose in evolution theory applied to politics exists-mankind is meat without a soul and thought is meaningless goes the post-modern screed. In that paradigm philosophy is meaningless, yet of course for business phenomenally input of energy and power to politically empower meat is given priority. Such value theories generate innumerable ethics consequents inimical to democracy, free speech and meaning.

I appreciate Warburton’s work yet am skeptical about the potential for slowing the concentration of wealth and power in the United States at least as well as global warming, mass extinction of species or even cosmological speculation infused with metaphysics and theology to consider parameters of classical philosophy (e.g. Plotinus) with pre-inflation theory. Mass economic power taking over higher education tends to marginalize independent thought.