Philosophy, R.I.P.

       Those who have followed my blogs for any length of time know I quoted Allen Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind.  Bloom's book diagnosed the problems with Heidegger, Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School, and what we now know as identity politics.  These trends have now become the dominant thread in American universities.  So much so that when Estase mentioned this book on a philosophy page on Facebook, another user (no doubt one of our mandarin class, entrusted with vulnerable young minds), accused him of saying that the book claimed the Frankfurt School was making everyone gay, and called him an idiot.
         This is what our philosophy departments have devolved into.