I will not dunk, so I must subtweet: a certain local internet public intellectual complaining about public intellectuals writing very self-impressed articles about trivial thoughts is *very* funny given his body of work.
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I like some of his work a lot, but his house style is literally "This needs to be half as long, a tenth as impressed with itself, and someone needs to take away your thesaurus and not let you have it back until you've written a thousand Simple English Wikipedia articles".
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
I fear alienating this entire LocalInternet but here goes: This description made me think instantly of TLP
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Replying to @phantom_opus @GeniesLoki
To be fair, this is also Ribbonfarm, SSC and Iain McGilchrist, all of whom I very much respect and have had huge value from.
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I cannot possibly comment on which if any of these I might be referring to. 
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