Like the ones the drone class use to set the people up for revolution, lies the people easily swallow, for they know not how to discern. Philosophy has got to be this extreme and powerful in order to get anywhere, or even to find that there is nowhere to get to, if this is the case. It is nothing like examining one's life in the therapeutic sense, but the lonely stand of the self against the multitude and its values. There is no more reason to think that the mob will or can listen any more than in the past. This goes for much of the scholarly community as well.
Philosophy has many uses.
Logic, for instance, may be worked out and expanded without the destructive forces of philosophy, as can many other boring branches of philosophy. But the great philosophical questions are destructive ones. If he hadn't been sanitized by philosophers, he would be, too. Though Plato actually wanted such a legacy less than did Nietzsche, he too would be seen as an explosion against the mundane uses to which he is typically put. Philosophy can still be fun.