1) This happens when universities become factories of degrees (for students) and "#research" (for professors). The ideal of #objective writing, as if it could erase the subject on whom even the most trivial observation depends, only saddens those who can see through it.

2) The fetishism of referencing only adds superficial seriousness. Taking this to its extreme, any moron who can add five footnotes to a page must be deemed more serious than Descartes, or Kant, who added none. This is what happens when seminaristic pedantry replaces content.

3) Then you have English-speaking #theology, naïve and literal-minded, never known for refined thinking, stuck in #scholastics. None of its impulses had an emancipatory vision: it feeds on traditionalist revisionism, proud of the Oxford movement and its aesthetic obsessions.

4) Then authentic thinking meets the new #erudite online (a sad encounter), the class of the #intellectual parvenus deemed the new salt of the earth in their academic temples: stupid, aloof, snobbish. And they find a great deal of favour with algorithms.

5) It would be good to see more language learning (French, German, Latin, Greek), less seminaristic pedantry and more content, less academicism and more audacity in the new intellectuals, more focus on primary literature, less derivative thinking and at last more #authenticity.