The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
The desire to be significant casts a pall.
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.