I feel like every time I go down a philosophy rabbit hole I'm getting on a train to go to some destination only to realize after a few circuits that I stepped into a carousel.

The only exception being dialectical materialism because it destroys and remakes itself constantly as the world around it shifts.

This is by design. You really think the ruling class would actually teach people how to actually analyze and change the world? Better to mislead the intelligentsia into getting stuck in mental carousels.