Philosophical illiteracy has progressed so far that the experiential core of philosophizing has disappeared below the horizon and is not even recognized as such when it appears in philosophers like Bergson. The deculturation process has eclipsed it so thoroughly by opinion that sometimes one hesitates to speak even of indifference to it. Education is the art of preventing people from acquiring the knowledge that would enable them to articulate the questions of existence. Education is the art of pressuring young people into a state of alienation that will result in either quiet despair or aggressive militancy. The process in which metaleptic reality becomes conscious and noetically articulate is the process in which the nature of man becomes luminous to itself as the life of reason.
Man is the zoon noun echon .
Reason is instrumental reason. There is no such thing as a noetic rationality of man. Plato and Aristotle were fascists. The life of reason is a fascist enterprise. More important are the advances of the historical sciences which form a a sort of underground resistance.