Yes, I am angered. One needs to be shrill to be heard over the high fences of upper class play farms. Philosophy has become this ideology's 'wise old man' prop. A major part of the manufacturing of consent is the manufacturing of philosophy. Consciousness is dismissed as the outcome of particular processes.
Culture becomes a 'product' of mechanical predictability.
Of course this rationality fits perfectly with the social engineering of society and the industrial gridding of the world for exploitation. What is blatantly ignored, willfully shunted aside, is the value of life as the creative venture of consciousness itself. It is the creative that is untouched, untouchable but endlessly radiant - it is, if I allow myself the use of the term, the machine of essential nature. Neurophilosophers are lost in the minuteness of dendrites and axons - to believe that the plumbing system of thought is the blueprint of the human is both too small a view and an extraordinarily arrogant posturing devised to justify years of toil and tenure and hide the meanness of the conclusion. The argument is not whether culture is a product of nature or is 'fallen from heaven' but what is, profoundly, nature, and specifically what is human nature.