Another meeting of the philosophy group today and, no surprise, the discussion got bogged down in phenomenology. Phenomenology is a moderately hip branch of philosophy that uses impossibly thick jargon because its ideas have gone beyond the possibilities of normal language (or so say the phenomenologists - I’m doing OK with normal English so far.) I figure these people like phenomenology because a concept is so much more attractive if no one else understands it.

Call me cynical…