"The philosophers of the past were superficial," Dr. Pritchett went on. "It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy. The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find the meaning of life, but to prove to them that there isn't any."
The dumbing down and shaming of White America.
What have we let the liberal/progressive do(rhetorical question)?
Without the philosophers of the past, America would not exist. Without the philosophers of the past civilized man would not exist.
Without the philosophers of the past culture, society, art, music, ....there would be no meaning to life.
They are extinguishing every aspect of the American historical past. As surely as ISIS or the Taliban blows-up and destroys the markers of societal past, so too does the progressive.
Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power. They have destroyed the knowledge base.
And why does there have to be? Whether life has any “meaning” (itself a meaningless concept) does not change the reality that life IS. We can choose to live it any way we want, recognizing that there are consequences that accrue as the result of our choices. The consequences may or may not have any “meaning,” but I venture to say that some are decidedly less pleasant than others.