Very compelling piece Alex. My major disappointment with academic philosophy is that it is mostly intellectual history/archeology with professors spending entire careers discovering a tiny piece of correspondence that reveals something some great man (and they are mostly men) might have thought during a brief moment of madness. As a professor of political economy, I prefer that "worldly philosophers" who actually did philosophy that addressed the human condition in a given age. I wonder, where are the doers in our currently befuddled Gilded Age. Where is our Thorstein Veblen, and how would we know him if he existed. Despite having been the editor of the Journal of Political Economy at the U. of Chicago, he could not get his ideas published there today. We live in an anti-philosophical world, and we are much the poorer for it. Ben is a good choice to be one of your doers, and I like the concept of "Original Philosophy".