Why Not Stick to Philosophy?

I ask myself this question.

Why not stick to one's stoa and cultivate one's specialist garden in peace and quiet, neither involving oneself in, nor forming opinions about, the wider world of politics and strife? Why risk one's ataraxia in the noxious arena of contention? Why not remain within the serene precincts of theoria? For those of us of a certain age the chances are  good that death will arrive before the barbarians do.

So why bother one's head with the issues of the day? We will collapse before the culture that sustains us does. We enter the arena of contention because the gardens of  tranquillity and the spaces of reason are worth defending, with blood  and iron if need be, against the barbarians and their leftist enablers. Others have fought and bled so that we can live this life of beatitude. And so though we are not warriors of the body we can and   should do our tiny bit as warriors of the mind to preserve for future generations this culture which allows us to pursue otium liberale in  peace, quiet, and safety.