@lastpositivist As others have said, they all have this from Hicks' "Explaining Postmodernism"
Counter-enlightenment Rousseau on the other hand might be an original flourish by L himself and is honestly even funnier
Journalists are one of very few professions who don't get to look down on academics. Sorry but yinz are like us but worse in pretty much every way. If you wanted to look down on academics then you shoulda learned to code and got a data science job like everyone else.
423 years ago today, Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake by the Catholic inquisition, not simply for professing belief in heliocentrism and in the divinity of the universe, but also for conspiring against the Church's political rule in Europe.