Hearing on a different level
The meta-conversation problem is approached by hearing on a different level. Sometimes subtle are the sounds—voices calling to us “friend,” “enemy,” “global warming,” “liberal crap,” “you can’t fight that, it’s human nature.” Sometimes far from subtle, the politicians and advertisers scream at us. All of these are meta-conversation. Rather pseudo meta-conversation, for the words travel one direction only, or we are not allowed to see any other possibility. Then there is the Internet where we do join with others in meta-conversation, but usually about inconsequentials—the price of gasoline, how to wash vinyl siding, the latest urban legend or truth. Above and through all this a buzz, a hum. Herein the promise, the whisper of meta-conversation.
:- Doug.
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