I offer in evidence

"Kant originated the technique required to sell irrational notions to men of a skeptical, cynical age who have formally rejected mysticism without grasping the rudiments of rationality.

The technique is as follows: if you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea (based on traditionally accepted doctrines), your conclusions must be brazenly clear, but your proofs unintelligible. Your proof must be so tangled a mess that it will paralyze a reader's critical faculty - a mess of evasions, equivocations, obfuscations, circumlocutions, non sequiturs, endless sentences leading nowhere, irrelevant side issues, clauses, sub-clauses and sub-sub-clauses, a meticulously lengthy proving of the obvious, and big chunks of the arbitrary thrown in as self-evident, erudite references to sciences, to pseudo-sciences, to the never-to-be-sciences, to the untraceable and the unprovable - all of it resting on a zero: the absence of definitions. I offer in evidence The Critique of Pure Reason".
(Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It, New York: New American Library, 1982, p. 141)

(PS. Joaquim: Zazie est fâchée avec nous autres. Très fâchée. Avec toi à cause de tes jaquilinaires; avec moi à cause de Kant. Est-ce que tu peux faire quelque chose pour l'avoir de retour? Peut-être un petit poème, qui sait?)