You are not wrong; it’s basically narcissistic word salad, only with footnotes. People in social sciences nod along as if it meant something because their careers depend on compliance - and if you pretend to believe something for long enough, you will eventually internalise it. Everyone outside of academia just gets fobbed off with “it’s above your pay grade, bud”: deliberate obscurity passed off as depth.
Yes, appears to be some what the case. That said, I can think of two other non academic experiences I have had encountering genuine gobbledegook, one was a politician who spoke for 45 minutes about 'innovation' at an engineering conference I attended, and literally said nothing. I was kind of shocked. Another was reading renewable energy 'guru' Amory Lovins, and it was pages and pages of meaningless word salad. I am just amazed that the audiences of these people dont react more.
You are not wrong; it’s basically narcissistic word salad, only with footnotes. People in social sciences nod along as if it meant something because their careers depend on compliance - and if you pretend to believe something for long enough, you will eventually internalise it. Everyone outside of academia just gets fobbed off with “it’s above your pay grade, bud”: deliberate obscurity passed off as depth.
Yes, appears to be some what the case. That said, I can think of two other non academic experiences I have had encountering genuine gobbledegook, one was a politician who spoke for 45 minutes about 'innovation' at an engineering conference I attended, and literally said nothing. I was kind of shocked. Another was reading renewable energy 'guru' Amory Lovins, and it was pages and pages of meaningless word salad. I am just amazed that the audiences of these people dont react more.