practicality of philosophy today

[Reincarnate]

Philosophy is nice in that it can help inform a variety of other frameworks (logic, reason, consistency, meaning, utility, epistemology, etc).

However, it's only useful if you actually give a shit about the truth value of something and apply it accordingly, because a lot of dumb shit gets mixed into it all when you start blurring the lines between things that are necessarily distinct / allowing things like meaning and consistency to be suspended / etc, which is not much more than empty mental masturbation with no climax.

A lot of people use philosophy to compensate for their ignorance/close-mindedness, since you can basically make up/find a philosophical framework that supports anything you want. That's not going to help you if you approach things that way.