How to Obfuscate: the Essentials * Dec 20, 2002
How to be a philosopher: a tongue-in-cheek tip sheet. Technique 4, for instance:
Single-handedly develop your own jargon. It should include an exceedingly hard-to-follow extended metaphor of dubious relation to the topic under discussion. Persist in using the metaphor to ground your arguments. Stick to it at all costs, even if it seems to run your argument into blatant dead-ends or outrageous contradictions. To give the appearance of profundity, insert paragraph breaks at random. Then number every paragraph. (The reader will simply divine the appropriate relations between paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, and sub-sub-paragraphs.)Posted by Jone Johnson Lewis at 08:07 AM
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