Contemporary deconstructionists might agree, especially when they, too, forget the historical lessons and ironies that a consideration of Mr. Ford could teach. He prominently displayed a picture of Adolph Hitler in his office long before his motor car company sponsored the first television broadcast of Schindler's List .
History is important.
To understand squabbles today, we must be enabled to put them in context. We must be enabled to tell ourselves persuasive stories based on as much credible evidence and insightful interpretation as we can muster. All else is solipsism, the idiotic epistemology of the specious present. Philosophical disputes, as much as technological transformations, theological reformations and wars, must be understood in their historical contexts. A reconstruction in our understanding of language has been in the making for those 30 years.