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| Plato's Purgatory... a diner doodle |
It’s an old saying, an old
challenge, and it goes like this: “Are you willing to put that in writing?”
Methinks it, like so many other old
sayings, now has a mutated meaning.
I’m beginning to wonder
about something, specifically, I’m beginning to wonder if some folks’
preference for texting rather than talking is indicative of more than just a fad of using the (relatively)
new gizmo simply because it’s there to be used.
I’m beginning to wonder if the whole texting thing hasn’t evolved into a
defacto new talisman of conformity.
The anomaly that trips my
curiosity is this: I’ve observed those who prefer text over voice would seem to
be the same set who tend to speak, when they do speak, in politically correct
but incomplete euphemisms that buzz like an out of balance transformer, the
same set most dedicated to texting those who to all visible evidence have surrendered
personal freedom as a casualty of the covert cultural warfare being waged by
the oriental influences of silence and conformity so critical to installing the
slavery of caste and class into the American culture. The prohibition is against speaking it,
writing it in a little note isn’t taboo (just bad judgment allowing for the
corporate sponsored government spying on all forms of electronic
communication).
Nothing nada zip by way of
any confirming evidence of course, just a growing question and ongoing curiosity. Oh well, time will tell if told it be. Doubt I’ll be here to see the final on this
one.
I tend to think rather that when one speaks, there is an array of nonverbal cues--vocal tone, facial expressions, body language, pheromones, and that spiritual sense that most of us have but too many ignore--that speak to the truth or falsehood of what we say. Words on a screen carry none of that (unless a skilled writer can make them include it). So texters may simply be afraid of exposing their deep truths...
ReplyDeleteA distinct possibility Jochanaan, but a sad one... sounds like a terribly frightened and lonely way to live to me.
DeleteYes. But would one call, say, Emily Dickinson lonely?
Deletecommenting and replying on a blog or dA or somesuch, is just a very slow form of texting. or the opposite: texting is abbreviated ultra-fast commenting. so what else is new. huh?
ReplyDeletepip ;)
Just the difference between conversation and correspondence...
ReplyDeletedigital = intercourse without touching?
ReplyDeleteanalog = oh. no. let's not go there. [too many potential plays on words]
my frontal lobe begins to let me down, i think.
"I like handwork on my bed as well as in it." --Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Bloody Sun
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