> So with facts gone and the real world gone, that leaves only one purpose for language, for saying anything at all: to get others to do what you want them to do.
And now we have a regime in the United States that has downright weaponized this posture.
Indeed. It's distressing how this tactic can be (and is) employed by all sorts of unhinged extremists, from radical postmodernists to Trump and his cronies.
Being an obscurantist is apparently a great strategy if you want to fool and exploit people. Would that it weren't so damn effective. :/
And now we have a regime in the United States that has downright weaponized this posture.