[Richard Kimball]

It could just as easily been in The Onion.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I've stated for years that people do what they want to do because they want to do it and philosophy is simply a way of rationalizing what they want to do.

Philosophy has always been about mental masturbation, but you have to take all the courses to be able to say that with any degree of authority.

[ontos-on]

You are right about this bunch of leftist intellectuals. Read marxist for leftist. They have corrupted what philosophy is; and they have captured the university. Real philosphy is not practiced at the university at present. Yet it still lives, though away from the marketplace, as always.