[swansong]

Dilettante.

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3s458i/

Just picking one of the many hilariously patronising statements in the essay, the author says "we may be able to do better" than the great philosophers by, in effect, making a big list of things that are true in general, and cause people to act differently.

How do we measure truth? Who decides? What happens when the people who decide become political? What if someone is wrong? What if an action that you thought was true causes someone to do something morally wrong? What is morally wrong?

What if others want to talk about things that aren't on this list? Do you stop them? Are they wasting their time if they ask other questions?

Maybe people in philosophy are looking at things now that will only make sense to others in decades to come. That happens to be my opinion. It is worth studying anything somebody gives their life to very carefully before writing it off as a "swamp of abstractions".