This void is quite common due to the rapid speed of life, our telephone conversations are condensed because we have no time, our conversations with employees at the supermarket checkout hardly take place because the person behind you waiting to be served is desperate to go home to cook their cabbage soup, our communication has just turned into that of a telemarketer's phonecall: we simply cannot wait until they are over.
A technique that I use to avoid falling into this word-abyss is I apply abstract terms to my discourse and if the person in my vicinity catches on then they are worthy of my speech. The more abstract a conversation becomes, the more life is made sense of, and the deeper the connection to both the earth and the other, and that is the most valuable aspect of modern-day speech simply because it is now a rarity. Very scarce is the conversation which connects two and confuses others. When it is stumbled upon, it must be nestled within one's mouth and mind like it is the last ounce of gold, the last breath of fresh air, the last rare species of animal.
Mankind has moved forward since the very first steps of communication, through every artistic endeavour, every rock painting, every cavernous grunt, every dreamtime story, every song, every poem. One should not let technology abolish our one gift. There is nothing more important than to honour the skilled in conversation by building them a dialogue shrine, one conjured up in the very moment of conversing. Back and forth, the tête-à-tête should curl evenly between the tongues of participants, flirting artistically with their minds and growing like a tornado feeding on materialistic objects.
I am constantly disappointed when I eavesdrop on the conversations between others, yakking about trams and other transport deficiencies, about dinnertime and what will be cooked and consumed, about mindless television shows. Until the agenda for colloquy changes, my attitude towards socialising will not.
A technique that I use to avoid falling into this word-abyss is I apply abstract terms to my discourse and if the person in my vicinity catches on then they are worthy of my speech. The more abstract a conversation becomes, the more life is made sense of, and the deeper the connection to both the earth and the other, and that is the most valuable aspect of modern-day speech simply because it is now a rarity. Very scarce is the conversation which connects two and confuses others. When it is stumbled upon, it must be nestled within one's mouth and mind like it is the last ounce of gold, the last breath of fresh air, the last rare species of animal.
Mankind has moved forward since the very first steps of communication, through every artistic endeavour, every rock painting, every cavernous grunt, every dreamtime story, every song, every poem. One should not let technology abolish our one gift. There is nothing more important than to honour the skilled in conversation by building them a dialogue shrine, one conjured up in the very moment of conversing. Back and forth, the tête-à-tête should curl evenly between the tongues of participants, flirting artistically with their minds and growing like a tornado feeding on materialistic objects.
I am constantly disappointed when I eavesdrop on the conversations between others, yakking about trams and other transport deficiencies, about dinnertime and what will be cooked and consumed, about mindless television shows. Until the agenda for colloquy changes, my attitude towards socialising will not.
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