Good points BBM. Jargon is used by some to define truth and describe reality [CDMA engineers burbling on about Fourier transforms, orthogonality, erlangs, pops, pseudo random noise, Gaussian noise, rake receivers, gallium arsenide, hard handoff - which is not onanism].
Jargon is used by others to deceive and to conceal reality [lawyers angling for another buck, social 'scientists' angling for power and another buck, superstitious religious leaders angling for status the girls and another buck, socialists using dialectic materialism to get power and the money].
Of course some engineers use jargon to dupe and conceal, but that's the exception usually due to some blunder. Scientists with an agenda, such as climate scientists who claim to be able to give weather forecasts accurate for 100 years though they can't figure out whether it's going to rain this afternoon, also use flim flam jargon at times and perhaps more frequently than engineers.
Some religionists, socialists and lawyers are no doubt honest in their use of jargon.
The telling point in CB's attitude to jargon is the contempt she shows for those she calls the delusional who say in a modern art gallery, "Huh! My child, cat or dog could do that." While they are probably wrong, [I'm not convinced - 47 bricks in a row.... 'Wow'], it's the contempt for those trying to understand the jargon which is telling. Worse is the fact that the art aficiandos are not shy about compulsorily taking the money [taxes] from the who work to fund their private state-funded modern art jokes.
The Lawyer guild is similarly untrammelled in their acquisition of loot from a captive population, with laws breeding on laws. Every aspect of human life becoming approved by a central commissariat. Lawyers being needed to create and interpret rules for state control of the most prosaic and personal of human activity.
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