““Just one example: dancing around drinking vodka singing yechi is chochma bina and daas. Sitting at a tish and listening to the rebbe’s torah is just emotion.”
100% off point. That is obviously not what CS meant and the fact that you wrote that is indicative that you don’t know anything about Chassidus, Chabad or otherwise, or you are being libelous with malicious intentions.
The fact is, and this is coming from someone who studies a variety of of shittos in “Jewish thought” that the Baal Hatanya had a very specific and unique idea about the applications of Chassidus. The Baal Hatanya believed that the in-depth study of the Esoteric was not just for yechidei segulah and the extremely righteous, but that every individual has the potential and the obligation to raise himself up to be baal nefesh and a baal avoda and that part and parcel of that is the in depth study of pnimiyus hatorah. If you want to be honest with yourself for one second you can browse through either Likutei Torah or Torah Ohr and in a significant number of the maamarim (if not the majority) the Baal Hatanya expresses his view that a person needs to meditate in detail about various levels of Seder Hishtalshilus and that despite their composition and lofty levels that they are truly as naught when compared to God himself as God is utterly transcendent and unaprehensible etc etc etc.
Open a Kedushas Levi, an Ohev Yisroel, a Noam Elimelech, a Beis Aharon, and see if the maamorim printed there are detailed in their explanation of kabbalistic ideas (if they even explain at all) or if there is any such focus on the individual attaining a comprehension of the divine.
For precisely his unique conception of Chassidus The Baal Hatanya was opposed by R Boruch Mezibuzher, R’ Ahron Karliner, R’ Mordechai Lechovitzher, R’ Avrohom Kalisker etc, and despite not being in direct opposition to him, Chassidus conceived by The Rebbe R’ Elemelech is markedly different from Chabad Chassidus in shifting of the focus of Chassidus to being about hiskashrus with tzaddikim, and this was further developed by the Chozeh and the other Rebbe’s of Poland (excepting of course the divergence from this path by the school of Pshischa, and its offshoots in Kotzk etc.)