> point. Having until recently occupied a perch in the corporate world, I
> have, one might say, been in the position of an artillery spotter. And let
> me tell you, LBOers, *none* of the furious salvos of intensely academic
> commentary fired off here make the slightest difference to, or are even
> heard by, the business world.
"The business world" has its own brand of mystifying and obfuscatory talk, doesn't it? Not to mention its own perches in academia (in economics departments and b-schools, etc.). If they're supposed to be the measure of political effectiveness, it's probably not because they speak the common man's lingo on all occasions. Corporations and the right use different languages on different occasions and at different times, just like leftists do. If anything, business jargon, while remaining incomprehensible to a lot of people, is associated with power, precisely because it's NOT clear: see those commercials with athletes and celebrities like Fergie and Chris Carter holding forth on p/e ratios and whatnot.
Gary Ashwill