I got through the first couple paragraphs. I would say the writing is bad, and self-satisfied, but not as bad or as self-satisfied as you say. It’s just much t

I got through the first couple paragraphs. I would say the writing is bad, and self-satisfied, but not as bad or as self-satisfied as you say. It’s just much too long. If he’d pared it down a little, it could have been quite good. His big mistake was this: I will spend the rest of this essay unpacking those two statements. That’s when I gave up. Two blocks of text, each with a few good ideas smothered beneath way too many words, and he says “I will elaborate.”