The philosophical types that can grasp, Socrates, Aristotle, Emerson, Kant and the like already rule the world, we just don't want it.
"I know that I know one thing and that is that I know nothing", Socrates & his Socratic paradox.
I know nothing and understand even less as I am held hostage by the extremely fallible sensory perception system.
KEEP READING, this alone is tantamount in separating yourself from the status quo.