One thing we have known, since Nietzsche, is that we are free - almost unbearably free - to conceive of reality however we like. And we are (well, some of us more than others) getting more free by the hour.
What do we do with all of this freedom? Who the fuck knows? Regardless of what happens with science, we are still as humans going to be free to think society, imagine society, in an almost infinite number of different ways. One thing we don't believe in, and which is perhaps a legacy of poststructuralism, is limiting the freedom of others to make choices (or even unconsciously limiting ourselves). We believe in freedom, intellectual freedom, which can at times seem to exceed all boundaries, including those of social common sense, even sanity.
The point is that what is called obscurantism is simply high-powered instrumental language. Sure, any of these guys could have been smacked upside the head and been told, 'Bro, you're overthinking this one. Life's not that complicated.' And, in a sense, they would have been right. We just would have been the poorer for it later on, we would have lacked a concept that is basically free and open to anyone to use, for whatever reason or purpose they might see fit.
But it's kind of a good thing they carried on. Even as they seem to get more and more hung up on what sometimes seems perfectly obvious, or totally ephemeral. This is all part of the process of coming off the old gold standard of God, of discovering relativity (and, I would say, mimetics). And the enormous possibilities and potentiality of human thought: expressed, I would say, increasingly through the phenomenon of capitalism, but I am not a Marxist, and that's another story.
Anyways, you sexy motherfuckers, I don't mean to give the impression that I think hysterical pomo relativism is by any means wonderful for its unreadability. Or for the gigantic clusterfuck theory has reaped in the form of SJW-itis. This all sucks, precisely because in the desire for authenticity and self-expression a number of other equally important virtues, like charity, tolerance, patience and so on, have gone missing. Even asking another person to listen can be construed as sovereignty, can be seen as asking too much. It's a trigger-happy universe out there, and too much of this freedom has a way of turning nice people into cunts.
>or worse, bores
So for me at least, I think the idea is less to get hung up The Truth and to pay more attention to those scenarios, contexts or circumstances in which you might be fortunate enough to learn something new or have a chance to change your mind. I'm as guilty as anyone else in that regard, in *failing to listen.* Which, in an age of total relativity, is arguably even more important than the talking and the writing.
Interestingly, that's what analysis is all about. Not being the Sphinx. Because people already may have one of those inside them.