Nomenklatura: I think we now have an entire class of people who think that talking is the answer to everything. We have a large number of professions now that consist of doing nothing but talking to people and getting them to do what you want, ranging from car salesmen to welfare rights advocates to lawyers to politicians. Their skills at other tasks have atrophied, assuming they ever had them.

Furthermore, this Talker class have become to resent even suggestions that problems can be solved by anything but talking. And they have come to resent people who can do more than just talk. Nothing is impossible to the man who does not have to do it himself.