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I sincerely believe that all of modern philosophy has been largely promoted in academic circles by counter-initiation, with the aim of diverting people who have the cognitive abilities for scholasticism and spirituality toward schools of thought that are incoherent and pointless.

For example, it is obvious that the success of an author in modern philosophy depends almost not at all on their talent; there have undoubtedly been hundreds of psychoanalytic authors who were far superior to Deleuze. Why history remembers Deleuze and not those others is a mystery. Thus, the modern philosopher is to philosophy what the rock star is to music: a co-opted figure, without talent, whose entire fame comes from shadowy agents.