What is it I want from a conversation? The question seems well-motivated, given my consistently differing attitudes to those in which I participate.
Does my dissatisfaction with certain conversation, then, stem from the fact that those utterances yield an unexceptionally plain series of events? I suggest so.
What I want from a conversation is something that keeps me moving. I want to grasp new truth-conditions, and not just ingest repackaged information of which I am already aware. I want to change my world, and see the impact of my words make you smile, make you perform, make you blush. But, most importantly, I want to bring you into this frightening, fluttering mind of mind, and show you a private way of viewing our shared world.
'I heard that Chris King was developing a bottom bracket.'
'Please stop doing that.'
'She is insane.'
Does my dissatisfaction with certain conversation, then, stem from the fact that those utterances yield an unexceptionally plain series of events? I suggest so.
What I want from a conversation is something that keeps me moving. I want to grasp new truth-conditions, and not just ingest repackaged information of which I am already aware. I want to change my world, and see the impact of my words make you smile, make you perform, make you blush. But, most importantly, I want to bring you into this frightening, fluttering mind of mind, and show you a private way of viewing our shared world.
I expect the same of you.
Without this novelty, a conversation stops dead in its tracts, and my dissatisfaction enervates like a sin.
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