/lit/ - Literature

Honestly, it's because it is fucking hard. You all can cope and say that it is about capitalism, degeneracy and so on, but in the end it boils down to how frustratingly hard it is to get initiated to philosophy.
Whatever you want to read will be at first absolutely impenetrable, since you have not read the dozen of books required to even just begin to get a grasp on the book's content. And if you think you're understanding it, it won't be long before you'll realize that everything you thought was retarded garbage (which usually only enrage the novice, who will often immediatly cope by derming philosophy as a whole as "bullshit" - it takes time and practice to get used to be wrong). The only way to get through it is to keep failing, to keep misreading, until eventually you get familiar woth philosophical terminology, with the general debates, and the general themes of western philosophy. It is frustrating, it takes a long time, and it is almost impossible to do so without some guidance (unless you have literal decades to waste). If you add the fact that most people don't even know what philosophy is, and that most of them will go through their entire lives without anyone explaining what it is to them, and you end up with a very clear verdict on why normies don't care about philosophy