X-files Theory

From the book Teranesia, a science fiction book by Greg Egan: .....and all the other social justice movements were getting more and more support. So in the 1980's ( this is where the X-Files theory comes into it ) the CIA hired some real clever linguists to invent a secret weapon: an incredibly complicated way of talking about politics that didn't actually make any sense......It spread through all the universities because it sounded so impressive. "So instead of going to the people in power and saying, 'How about upholding the universal principles you claim to believe in?' they end up saying things like"My truth narrative is in competition with your truth narrative', and the people in power replied, 'Woe is me, you've thrown me in the briar patch!' .....And the secret weapon lived on in the universities for years because everyone who played a part was too embarrassed to admit what they had done." I know it's a fictional device, but.......