Are our bodies really "malevolently created"? That would be literal Gnosticism or maybe Schopenhaurian pantheism. The kind of cosmicist pantheism I favour posits the monstrosity of nature's indifference and of its inhuman (and therefore not evil) agenda.

Philosophy seems to me quite the luxury, so it stands apart from the workaday world. Traditionally, philosophy has been for elites who didn't need to work, although in the ancient world philosophers were often outsiders who chose not to engage in productive labour due to their quasi-religious commitments. That was when philosophy was still a way of life.

Philosophy became professionalized, yet the heart of that labour isn't philosophy itself but the academic role. Contemplation isn't really work that capitalism favours. Work is drudgery, whereas philosophy is seeing into the pointlessness of all work. Philosophy is thus for outsiders, for fully-fledged people who stand outside animality, as alienated minds.