How worthless is Philosophy?

[vulcanlogician]

You didn't personally do the mythologizing.  I say we for a reason.  Alot of the mythologizing was done by later christians, both good and bad.  Alot of the propping up in a tower.  The history there gets convoluted fast as they felt compelled to both borrow from and distance themselves from the traditions and personages.  

I think we both agree that this is/was a mistake.

A mistake, yes. A claim that we should be logical and scrutinize our possible mistakes. I think Plato had that part right. Taking Platonism as a whole is foolish.

But the denying of Plato's ideas wholesale is equally as foolish. He had good ideas. We both know it.