Various Reasons Why Experience is not the Litmus Test of Truth

 
Knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presumptions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience.

Only what they do not first need to understand they consider understandable; only the word coined by commerce, and really alienated, touches them as familiar.
 
Repudiation of the current cultural morass presupposes sufficient involvement in it to feel it itching in one's finger tips, so to speak, but at the same time time the strength, drawn from this involvement, to dismiss it.