Sleeping Pills

I've been around academia lot, especially where I used to live. People my Mom worked with and students were always coming around ( she would talk all educated to some people and then she would talk like a regular person the rest of the time ). For the most part, they spoke in a language all their own. It's more than double talk, it's usually loud double talk in code with keywords and alot of twisted meaning. For the most part, it's just talk. It's exchanging ideas in an elitist vocabulary. It has it's rules. But it's easier to understand when it's spoken than when it's written. Man, reading it is like trying to keep from going to sleep when you've taken meds that make you sleepy. Don't get me wrong, it's hard to listen to it too but at least you get a little comedy and some drama when it's spoken. In written form, it's just a jumble of words with no emotion.
I ran upon the blog of a grad student at Ole Miss. Man he is ripe with it. He's like the people that would come to my Mom's office a few years ago just to regurgitate something they had read or to discuss some hidden truth that only they could see. When I was little, I enjoyed listening to them. They were funny and fun to be around: as a little kid. But now it just bores me. I'm not demeaning them. I would have to really understand them first. I would have to understand the reason behind their need to understand the (for the most part) meaningless. I would have to understand the meaning behind their need to throw out token phrases from obscure and not so obscure authors, and use that as evidence that what they are saying is correct. I know that theory is important. That isn't what I'm saying. It's the hours, days, months, and sometimes years searching for evidence to substantiate a theory about why punctuation was placed at a certain point in a novel is what I don't understand. It's the almost rabid and sometimes psychotic ranting about life, using the works of authors from 1000 of years ago as examples of some social flaw, social injustice, or even some genetic mutation in society today. It's their ability to squeeze a moment of truth out of 1000s of years of vagueness. It's their ability to use the lack of truths as evidence of truth. I just don't understand it. It's not that I believe it's meaningless, because I don't. I'm not demeaning their effort or their intelligence. I just don't understand it or them. There's no end product. There's nothing tangible. It's just evidence of thought ( I thought this, so it is and that is my evidence ). But at least it is evidence of thought. LOL. I've never been accused of that so maybe I'm just jealous.