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Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Conversation, why I go on about it

I go on about conversation.
 
Why?

I see it and hear it in action and occasionally participate in it myself.
 
I read conversations (albeit one way conversations).
 
Conversation created the renaissance, the enlightenment, modernism and post modernism. It can be compared to food:
  • Rhetoric = rich food
  • Scientific talk = health food
  • Plain talk = fast food
  • Political correctness = the diet
  • Wit = haute cuisine
  • The new conversation = the banquet
The conversation of love changes ourselves and the environment.

The family is the teacher of the art of conversation with strangers.

The challenge of conversation at work involves specialists in different fields talking to each other. This requires a common language.

The challenge of technology is to have the courage to make choices and to avoid naïve optimism and cynical pessimism.

Travel conversation allows ideas (including those of religion) to pause and make love.

Ref: Conversation, Theodore Zeldin

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