What you have documented is a pattern of communication -- or lack of it -- that is specific to an occupation.

It is not specific to a political outlook.

No doubt you are right, since I have no surveys or other objective evidence to the contrary, but in my experience I have never seen or read about anyone in academia who throws that kind of dense verbal crap around who did not profess themselves to be a full-blooded progressive.

You see, nobody who swims in the waters of sociological and philosophical academia--where such language is a prerequisite for occupational survival--would last for more than a few minutes as a conservative, unless they hid it very, very well.

Doesn't mean there aren't some windy conservatives. Look at William F. Buckley. On the other hand, he uses mostly real words, if big ones.

BTW, I could swear that the word "epiphenomenal" came up on these boards once a long time ago.