Frankly speaking, the analytic philosopher can be a bit insufferable. Into every conversation, on any conceivable topic, he enters with a confident swagger, poised to pounce at the slightest infelicity or error on the part of his unlucky interlocutors. For any slippage or equivocation, an expression of exasperated confusion and demand for clarification at the ready. To any proposal, the impulse to counter-proposal. Talking with an analytic philosopher, one has the distinct feeling of being monitored. Every word, a potential landmine; every idea, inspected for implication and inconsistency. And as if all that weren’t bad enough, behind all the smug self-satisfaction, some might feel, is really nothing at all! The analytic philosopher is intellectually shallow and incurious about anything beyond his narrow province. The products of his thought are, accordingly, bland, a shameful shadow of what philosophy once was. To make matters even worse, none of this he finds at all disturbing. On the contrary, the analytic philosopher takes a perverse pride in his ignorance, his simple-mindedness, his utter frivolity and irrelevance. Assholery of this kind is not an individual pathology […] it is but the analytic style to be obnoxious in this particular way

Frankly speaking, the analytic philosopher can be a bit insufferable. Into every conversation, on any conceivable topic, he enters with a confident swagger, poised to pounce at the slightest infelicity or error on the part of his unlucky interlocutors. For any slippage or equivocation, an expression of exasperated confusion and demand for clarification at the ready. To any proposal, the impulse to counter-proposal. Talking with an analytic philosopher, one has the distinct feeling of being monitored. Every word, a potential landmine; every idea,........

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