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One thing I’ve learned to appreciate as I’ve gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.
We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.