Dreary Literary Theory
There’s nothing quite so clear that scholars can’t
Transmogrify it to opacity.
There’s nothing academics won’t enchant
Away to mud with their audacity.
They do this with their stupid fancy words
And jargon they deploy to make them seem
More hifalutin’ than us little turds
Beneath them. They find reasons to esteem
What everyone can see is just plain
Sense as . . . naivety. They use deft tricks
Of logical hairsplitting. Making a stain
On white dog terms, these Derridas are ticks.
When Marxism and Freud ain’t enough,
These guys come up with Deconstruction stuff.
“Deconstruction. … Originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, deconstruction is a metaplasm of Martin Heidegger’s Destruktion that refers to an event whereby a hierarchical binary opposition is overturned to create space for the emergence of a new concept.” Wikipedia