today philosophy is unimportant! - completely correct: for the things of "importance" today.

                              - heidegger, ponderings iv, aphorism 75 -

it's morphed, or let us say, this observation from germany,
in the year 1936, has morphed, drastically...
                            philosophy has become so unimportant,
that book shelves in either libraries or bookshops,
stock more *self-help guides than actual books in the criterion
   of what could, otherwise be, easily identifiable.
            but this easily identifiable is lost, for many reasons,
                     one of them being the hijack of the word itself...
who was it hijacked by? psychologists! mainly.
          the word, as noun, can no longer be dissolved
                    and reconstructed into a verb...
                                             because who does that, these days?
the psychologists know all to well, this weird, weird, weirder
still "defence" of grammar, but evidently there is no defence...
            they cite philosophy in casual inferences of a,
well... a meaningful dialogue...
                         philosophy is doubly unimportant these days...
since its primordial basis for existence,
              has become a conversation coordinate to bounce off...
namely: it has become an adjective -
        as people reference it:        philosophical...
   or         philosophically (adverb form)
                                as with ad-                toward what action?
what nietzsche plagiarised concerning god from diogenes?
      nietzsche's version invokes a man
   walking into a market square at noon, with a lantern,
asking people for god... but that's simply on a page in a book...
      diogenes? he actually did this exact act,
   but he wasn't looking for god...        he was looking for,
                             an honest man.