How obnoxious and rude. It was in the article, it's a nice clever analogy that the authors used, it's an allusion that's not that deep or complicated to get. If

How obnoxious and rude. It was in the article, it's a nice clever analogy that the authors used, it's an allusion that's not that deep or complicated to get. If you finished high-school English and/or did well on the SAT you should have the reading comprehension skills to infer the meaning from that passage, despite it being a term not defined anywhere. Furthermore, you are free to disagree/skeptical with their notion of a "philosophy-industrial complex" being true or valid, but that issue would be a different matter and does not warrant your passive-aggressiveness toward me.