There is a tribe where people assume that short men are short because they were sexually loose during adolescence and a consequence they have a lower status within their society. We moderns like to think we are more rational. "Our modern society is not like that," but many people still adhere to irrational beliefs which our central to our society. "People are poor because they didn't work hard enough" for example. Will philosophy help us to attain a more rational, equitable, tolerant, and compassionate culture? If not what will? I've read stuff from within cultural criticism but I can't see how that stuff will make our culture better because most of it seems kind of "out there."