Not gonna say who I'm subtweeting but philosophy twitter continues to deliver an endless stream of unintentional self-owns of an entire discipline. I honestly think their guild should step in & w/ a #NeverTweet policy.
There are many fields that people already had low or mixed opinions of, like economics. But philosophy as a discipline was obscure enough that I think few outside academia had an opinion on it, until the rise of larger philosophy twitter accounts changed that for the worse.
Of course, the current sorry state of things is really just reversion to a very ancient mean. Back when philosophers plied their trade in the agora, their insular cluelessness was roundly mocked by playwrights like Aristophanes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cuc…
How It Started Vs. How It's Going: "Is this not the pole of the birds?" Edition, featuring my man Stanley (but this rant was prompted by a different account). 
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