I think this exists outside of tech and AI as well. I was in a mall bookstore recently looking for a gift and I passed by a section of "Philosophy". I was curi

I think this exists outside of tech and AI as well. I was in a mall bookstore recently looking for a gift and I passed by a section of "Philosophy". I was curious and took a look and in that small section, a little over half a bookshelf, there was not a single title I recognized as philosophy. The closest was an abridged Art of War. The rest was entirely contemporary cultural critique stuff. I stay away from the anti-woke stuff online for the most part since I find it tedious. But I have to admit in that moment in the bookstore I realized how easy it is to erase history. No ancient Greek philosophy like Plato or Aristotle. No enlightenment philosophy. Not even existentialism. I mean, I get it that the kind of philosophy I think of is dominated by old white men. And I recognize the need to balance that out with other viewpoints. And I doubt a mall bookstore is selling a lot of copies of Spinoza or Hegel. But this was a complete erasure. This felt like the pendulum swinging so far to the other side that it has escaped reality.