====== Obscurantism ======



[[wp>Obscurantism]
http://econjwatch.org/articles/a-beginner-s-guide-to-esoteric-reading
[[http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html | David Stove: What is Wrong with our Thoughts?]]
[[http://lesswrong.com/lw/fy/what_is_wrong_with_our_thoughts/ | LessWrong]]


[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism#Lacan]]
To his students' complaint about the deliberate obscurity of his lectures, he replied: "The less you understand, the better you listen."[29] In the 1973 seminar Encore, he said that his Écrits (Writings) were not to be understood, but would effect a meaning in the reader, like that induced by mystical texts. 

[[wp>Pseudophilosophy#Romanticism]]
According to Bunge,
Pseudophilosophy is nonsense parading as deep philosophy. It may have existed since Lao-Tzu, but it was not taken seriously until about 1800, when the Romantics challenged the Enlightenment. By giving up rationality, they generated a lot of pseudophilosophy.

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