The core point here is that Siskind's default mode is a Gish-gallop of sloppy reasoning, spread over essays of 10k+ words to avoid criticism. I'm happy to have

The core point here is that Siskind's default mode is a Gish-gallop of sloppy reasoning, spread over essays of 10k+ words to avoid criticism. I'm happy to have an essay that actually does the close reading to take these apart. It means I can say the short version ('SSC is tendentious hot air that calls itself 'rationalist' mainly to lend weight to its insipid viewpoint') and point to the long version.