the falsity that is philosophy

The subject of this update is, sadly, a rant. The more I dive into philosophy, the more I realise who utterly obscure and almost pointless it is. You read a little about Heidegger and Dasein; plunge into a little of Hegelian dialectics (and then realise that Marx has somehow 'inverted' that into materialist dialectics); be told about Bergson's durée and temps. All of this is frivolous, and only scraping the surface of things. It's almost as if the only thing they have ever actually done is read each other's works and then expanded or negated those theories. Original thought and philosophy other than critique or response does not exist. You cannot be a philosopher without referencing Hume somewhere in your studies.

The closed system that is philosophy seems even smaller if you escape from the west and try to look at it from a global perspective. Any opposition to the 'West' is the 'East': typified in Buddhism (pronounced, with a slur, 'Boodhism'); differentiation of different forms of Buddhism or any understanding of the origins of that Buddhist thought are completely ignored because, of course, everything in the East is homogeneous. Any thoughts on discussing Khoisan concepts of existence are negligible because they're neither East nor West.

How can philosophy ever actually say it represents any sense of 'wisdom' or shared ideas when it continues to exist in a little sphere of its own? Until there is some unified ideas of thought (not just left to anthropologists or sociologists) the ontology, epistemology, and so on, of anything (and nothing) cannot even begin to be tackled, let alone presumably 'comprehended'.