foundation for language once we assume that there is no rational structure to reality or that we cannot know it. There is simply a continuous interpretation taking place in which each person is to get an equal number of votes to determine the meaning of whatever it is we are interpreting. There are no guarantees of whose or which interpretation will predominate today. This preoccupation with Self and language pervades our culture. In a postmodern world, society is a network of many individuals, each