"On the other hand, I look at the online public sphere and too often tend to find myself thinking: “Discourse at this level can’t possibly accomplish anything beyond giving people some simulation of justification for what they wanted to believe in the first place.” This is, needless to say, not a problem limited to philosophy."
Reading his other posts, he seems to think that the verbose and convoluted discourse he prefers is somehow at a higher level. IMO, there is no reason for philosophy to be complex and difficult to understand. If you want to solve extremely complex and difficult problems, be a physicist, not a philosopher.
"On the other hand, I look at the online public sphere and too often tend to find myself thinking: “Discourse at this level can’t possibly accomplish anything beyond giving people some simulation of justification for what they wanted to believe in the first place.” This is, needless to say, not a problem limited to philosophy."