'Long-ish??' hardly! when you match-up the underlying theses with ... all those philosophical tomes waded-through because they were Required-on-a-test?
(Yeah that's Real Incentive™ to wanna "learn" fuck-all, innit?)

Kinda the Upanishads by-way-of Twain's War Prayer via some care about [Referents?] and I'd choose to deem this opus:
~ a shared-screed against (maybe..?) that lust-for Certainty
which motivates the crowd-shared Monkey-Minds of legions of folks with no Original questions whatsoever.

Because they never will Work for anything (any idea) which doesn't pay-off directly in $$ sooner/later.
(But even that ain't Work)--look in every Office--to steal mmoffitt's quip from Soviet times:
They pretend to pay us; we pretend 'to work'.
Yeah.. hangin out at zIWE Σ-hrs.'at-work' to pass. the. time. ... Ooops.

Anyway, Thanks;
it's more fun than any-old memorized Socratic algorithm.. so apt to confuse 'cleverness' with 'insight', when read mainly for a multiple-choice-Pass, next.



(Hell.. if/n ya can't hold THREE contradictory things in-mind simultaneously, y'aren't ready for a Cosmos THIS Hyarge at. all.)