I think the problem is that much of philosophy is mediocre at best and seriously flawed at worst.

Consider the most influential concept in Western culture is monotheism. The "all-knowing absolute," as Pope John Paul 2 put it.

Yet logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the new born babe, than the wise old man. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

It is socially and politically useful to rever both knowledge and the Big Guy in charge, yet the ideal is aspirational while the absolute is elemental. When people assume their ideals to be absolute, they tend to act like assholes. It empowers the close minded and confuses the open minded. You would think the philosophers could have given it a little consideration.

Good and bad are not some cosmic duel between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. When we assume good to be aspirational rather than elemental, conflicts become a race to the bottom, of us versus them, as all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is suspect.

Life is emergent and we have barely begun to think it through.

Consider that as these mobile organisms, this sequential process of perception that is our conscious experience, is an evolutionary necessity of intentional navigation, so we think of time as the point of the present moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration. Though the evident reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Aka, causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Meanwhile one of the issues philosophy is hung up on is determinism. Though the act of determination can only occur as the present. Potential>actual>residual.

Free will is an oxymoron, as an act free of cause would also be free of effect and the premise of will is to affect. We are a small part of nature's process of selection.

How about money? It is the social contract enabling large societies, but we treat it as a commodity to mine from society. The medium has become the message.

To store it, we have to generate equal amounts of debt and can't seem to understand why it doesn't seem quite real, even if we devote our lives to acquiring it. You can't store a medium. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. One is inherently dynamic, while the other is static. The economists are idiots as well.

I could go on, but the fact is that we are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality and it's like we haven't really internalized the earth is round.

So yes, current philosophy sucks.