The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.
I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.