In most mentalities language is just fashionable or banal clothing (rarely finery) that obscures the evidence of natural and human reality; it is a programmatic form of mutual or collective self-deception, a grand conspiracy of untruth or denial. Language is a mere tool of mere banausic or utilitarian mentalities, for the most part, who are perfectly closed upon themselves. A fulfilled mind is (as Hegel saw) an infinity-generator, open to its own incalculable richness; and it is so self-possessed that it understands the workings of its own expressive liabilities, and can parry these temptations and set them aside to see things more scrupulously. What passes for objectivity is for the most part an absurdity, a noxious faith that holds people in the webbing of orthodoxy. No one escapes his own gravity-traps of subjective self without prodigious philosophical energies.
