A summary of the dominant thinking of our era in many western universities:

 “.......the central proposition seems to be that there is no “reality” in the world other than one constructed by words. Categories are constructed according to the power interests of groups (white, western, and mostly wealthy and heterosexual, males) advantaged by such constructions and the main intellectual labor confronting the humanities, in fact confronting all of us, is to deconstruct these false categories and show them not to be based on objective reality or knowledge but on ideology generated by a group (usually, and especially, white, western males) wishing to maintain their power advantage........the only way justice will be served is by analysing the modes and techniques of verbal deceit used in the construction of these ideologies to expose their fallacies and implausibilities .......”

However,

Is this THEORY itself a grab for power and prestige within the academy and the wider community by those who espouse it ?

Are many other people correct to feel and know in their bones that there IS a reality out there that has not merely been constructed by rhetorical sleight of hand ?

Do those who claim words do create all want to be like sorcerers who know all the rules of rhetorical deceit and become like the powerful shamans of our time who can decipher all the puzzles of the known world ?