• Battles between verbal and experiential realities are rarely exposed as such.
• When verbal realities rule politics all possibilities for disaster are left open.
• Verbal realities are a form of psychosis that a nation or person might prefer never to recover from.
• Verbal realities can be defended without appeals to reality checking, results testing, or rational thinking.
• Verbal realities work well for fables, fantasies, legends, myths, and science fiction, not for operating businesses, families, governments, or schools.