I saw a
>twitter screencap (can we stop yet?)
on /pol/ from Elon and his sock puppet account complaining about how there are "no philosophers" in the modern age.
That claim isn't the case for a few reasons:
Typically "philosophers" become important well after they've said what they meant to, and it's very much a modern conception that philosophy is accomplished by being in the academy (university position/professor, etc.) or writing books.
To extend further back in time, philosophy was then also about mathematical rigor, logic, or analysis which then now exist as Programming.
But the modern philosopher is not a programmer, nor is he some sort of merchant or seller of services. Neither is the modern philosopher a seeker of wealth or capital.
Secrecy leads to syncretism. Superposition avoids the binary dialectic of wealth vs. concept of existence.
Nor, can the Randian:
>“Tell me your premises.”
Save the system from extending beyond the concept of material vs. concept, nature vs. desire.
True philosophy is a lightning bolt, not merely a book.
