RE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES METAPHYSICS ACADEMICS INDUSTRY AND THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING

I hate to put it so baldly, but metaphysics, in the sense of what I will call disciplinary foundations, including their intra disciplinary matters, interdisciplinary connections, discontinuities, and interrelations, 


has become more important, for cultural and political survival, not just for enlightenment, job training, employment, diversion, or entertainment, rather than less important, as the 20th Century wore on, and the 21st has now begun.  


Metaphysics, in this special sense,  has been where our 'intellectual', or call it ideological, system, not just our philosophical academic establishment, has been at its weakest, almost from the beginning.