> 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 t

> 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. As you said: it's a mall bookstore, they have rent to pay, store inventory is expensive to keep indefinitely and they for sure aren't selling Plato's hot cakes... The erasure is caused by market forces, not by the swing of the pendulum, the market you live in doesn't value Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kant, etc. and so the bookstore you visited doesn't stock them because it won't make money.