I got the sense that he writes like what a 17 year old *thinks* a more mature adult would write, and it just comes off as being a mixture of feeling forced (pretended) and pompus at the same time. Like he has somewhat recently adopted a philosophy or a persona that he became a fan of, and he is forcing himself into it without the needed experience to be able to fit into it comfortably. Thus the awkward statements explaining himself, where the words he uses feel just a tad off in their meanings.