My mind was turned off by academic philosophy by my teenage years.

Over the course of the 50 since, I've come across a fair number of interesting insights.

Three to consider; Time, God, Money.

As mobile organisms this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our sense of time is the present moving past to future. It goes without saying that it's the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history. Given academia is a process of building on the priors, it is foundational to it as well.

Yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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

God; Ideals are not absolutes. Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center, the locus of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Those who assume their ideals as absolute tend to see everyone else as deficient and treat them as such.

Money; As linear, goal oriented creatures in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality(more thermodynamic than temporal), people see money as signal to save and store, while markets need it to circulate. Consequently Econ 101 describes it as both medium of exchange and store of value.

One should not need a degree to understand medium and store are different functions. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over and we would be fighting over our lots. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old can understand the difference. Yet the dominant economic philosophy cannot distinguish between medium and store.

It is issues like these that most academic philosophers simply cannot hear, because anything outside those hallowed walls is just noise.

While most of what is within them is just another rabbit hole.