Excellent examples of what Daniel Dennett calls deepities:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity | CC @danieldennett
Obscurity as a (false) index of profundity: see @dansperber 's model of what he calls the "guru effect": http://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/guru-effect.pdf … As Lacan said, "the real is the impossible" and "there is no such thing as sexual intercourse". Deep truths (in French).https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1007047400140214272 …
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Note also the tendency towards verbosity in academia. They more professors write using impenetrable jargon, the more they secure their own profession since only a specialist can understand what is being said.
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