Leaping Lizards! but what I think you’re right. [grin]
“The intended "final cause" here -- the goal or purpose -- is to destroy language itself as a conveyer of meaning authenticated by actual human living experience over long time frames within given traditional historical cultures.”
Destroy the language (that is, its meanings), kill the culture.
“To "kill" language in this sense, together with its ability to support a private culture at all, all you have to do is "dissolve" the presently-existing cultural consensus.”
By ‘dissolving’ the present meaning of words and terms, such as ‘property’, ‘natural rights,’ ‘consent of the governed’, ‘liberty’, ‘right of conscience’, ‘republic’, or the very word ‘right’ itself. Make your own list [smile] - it is virtually endless.
“The Marxists figured this out a long time ago.”
And called it ‘dialectics’ - now often called ‘deconstruction’. Big words for little minds.
Thank you, Betty, for yet another excellent exposition.
So true... the tactic being employed daily in Americas august Institutes for Head Shrinking.. We call colleges anecdotally.. and employ great fanfare and are regarded famously as places to increase the size of the head instead of shrink it..
All I can say is Gollleee and Shazaam.. fancy that...
Amen to that, YHAOS!
Common sense has no good repute these days. The "expert class" alone commands our allegiance, with their smelly little "doctrinal orthodoxies" that seem very much to me like evidence of too long a stay in "SecondRealityLand." The inmates are running the asylum. Or at least they think they are.
In this claim they have endless devotion in their turn, from the slavish MSM, who provide the soap-box and megaphone each and every time one of these idiots gets a bright idea. This gets read into the "cultural echo-chamber." Arrrgggghhhhh!
To the extent that "average," "everyday," "real" people (hopefully of common sense), the common man, whatever you want to call generic humanity, don't object to this schema, then it proceeds. As the wise man says, "all that is needful for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Sigh.
Thanks so much for your penetrating and provocative post, YHAOS!