I don't know how impressive it is. Any senior philosophy major who specializes in the analytic approach would be able to tear this stuff to shreds.
But that's well said about the aristocratic sociopathy. Behind the scenes on Bard's discussion forum, you get the sense of some cultish social dynamics at work. I brought some of my criticisms to their attention, and Bard was childishly indignant. That's not the basic philosophical attitude that goes back to Plato, and indeed Bard rejects the Socratic ideal as the worst kind of "Gnostic" dualism, rationalism, and repression. It's just that the late-modern, literary tradition of Continental philosophy is bound up with many decadent conceits. Indeed, there's a straight line from those traditions to the academic cult of wokeness.
Did you see my recent article on the divide in Western philosophy (link below)? The split began with Kant and Hegel, and continued with Frege and Husserl. And the split hardened in the twentieth century with positivism and the linguistic turn versus phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism.
