Now this, bb, is right on the mark IMHO. And the universities are just filled with these people, insecure, adolescent in the extreme, pining to give unfettered expression to their every immature sexual urge, to alter their consciousness with drugs. So what do they do? They justify, they excuse, they explain -- they paper everything over with WORDS, endless treacly words, as though words had some independent existence and power all their own. And when their deceptions are made plain, they adopt and twist another word or concept (self-esteem!) to deceive (You don't like "liberal"? How about "progressive"?). It is an endless game, signifying nothing. And they are ALL liberals. Well, hey, "Intellectual Elite", grow up first, THEN lecture us as to how to live!
Here's hoping Ann Coulter lives forever! There now, I do feel better ... ;-}
Yep, the power of rhetoric over reality. The power of "incantation." Words are "magic," you see. I think it all heakens back to Hegel's Zauberwerte -- the "magic word" that -- Presto-Changeo! -- makes the entire objective world disappear....
What a primitive mind set!!! And yet these are the people who are supposedly ushering in "Progress."