Yes, I'm not saying it didn't make sense—it made a lot of sense, common sense even—just dressed up painfully in erudition. Every commonplace thought (every sentence) was dragged in as a quote from a different writer. Edit out all the name-dropping and not much would be left.[0] When I was 15 I would have been fooled, impressed, but the Emperor's nakedness is now painfully obvious to me.

'A mountain had gone into labour and was groaning terribly. Such rumours excited great expectations all over the country. In the end, however, the mountain gave birth to a mouse.'

[0] I haven't seen anything nearly so bad in critical theory-type philosophy, but in, say, post-modern writing and the art world, it's not uncommon. That's why the Sokal hoax worked.