Humans are the only species with a capacity for mysticism. There is a craving in man that goes beyond robotics, political correctness and the herd. Eventually the neo dark age where free speech and “offensive thoughts” are suppressed at educational institutions will pass. History has shown that however brutal the suppression, be it communist rule or cultural censors, free thinkers emerge, the demand for freedom asserts itself and things change often for the better. Take heart philosophy majors. The demand for your services and teaching will return. Yes they had it right at Faber College “Knowledge is good”.
Liberal Arts as practiced in most colleges today bear no resemblance to Liberal Arts as understood by most colleges half a century ago. A few small schools and Hillsdale still retain Liberal Arts as what it should be.
LA today is misdirection to steer students away from culturally necessary knowledge, History, Philosophy, Literature (the greats, NOT Black Homosexual Women Writers of the nineteenth Century)