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Throughout a philosophy degree, you’re confronted with the idea of having the responsibility to build society from scratch, re-creating social, financial, educational and political systems. The intrinsically complicated and archaic web of systems that supports our current data set of history reminds me on a daily basis of the impossibility of such a liberty. And yet over a hundred years later, somehow we’re still holding onto models arranged in the early 20th century when our world looked very different. Our educational systems are predominantly the same. We base economic models on the same principles we dreamed up to handle a radically changing world a century ago. Some of us fear it will take a global catastrophe before any real changes will begin. It is the general consensus among existential-risk researchers that a worldwide disaster in the next hundred years will create new super-governing bodies. There are lots of reasons to study Philosophy. A lot of the time it’s a subject disc

Throughout a philosophy degree, you’re confronted with the idea of having the responsibility to build society from scratch, re-creating social, financial, educational and political systems. The intrinsically complicated and archaic web of systems that supports our current data set of history reminds me on a daily basis of the impossibility of such a liberty. And yet over a hundred years later, somehow we’re still holding onto models arranged in the early 20th century when our world looked very different. Our educational systems are predominantly the same. We base economic models on the same pr