Those who can deal with the lack of meaning and can create their own reality against the weight of the entire Western tradition prove their right to exist. Laws and social conventions are only masks for power. Value judgements are power plays. Since language is the medium for communication, and since language constructions are unstable, interpretation is also uncertain. Therefore, the emphasis is always on the one receiving the message, i.e., the reader, or the interpreter.
Language can only convey cultural biases.
The Method of Deconstructionism A. Deconstructing a text is similar to dismantling a house to see what mistakes were made in its building. When a reader deconstructs a text he is examining it for prejudice and bias that the author might have used for purposes of control. The rhetoric of liberty is contradicted by sexism and slavery. The task of D, therefore, is to uncover contradictions, to show the hidden and suppressed meanings that inhere in a text, whether it is a literary work, or a social institution. The ultimate aim of an interpretation is to construct a meaning which accounts for one's own experience or that of a group.