Why Has Technological Progress Outstripped Philosophical Progress?
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- Yet I wonder if a culture that treats thinkers as âknowledge workersâ and optimizes for âproductivity toolsâ rather than âdiscernment toolsâ ends up leading to an intellectual culture that is superficial and fleeting.
- Maybe the problem is distribution. Somewhere out there, great philosophers are writing into the void, but there is no audience to notice them because the world is overrun with noise. One could argue that there is no mass âattention marketâ for philosophy.