Managed Mystification: The Carefully Crafted Destruction of Intellectual Meaning
Michael Murry. Introduction by William Astore. Robert Plant in “Stairway to Heaven” sang that “you know sometimes words have two meanings.” As Michael Murry powerfully shows in his first essay for The Contrary Perspective, nowadays words have innumerable meanings, or simply no meaning at all. And it’s by design. We live, as he memorably suggests,…