"Take nothing at face value. Don't investigate things people say. Remember their minds are chaos." — Michael Levitonhttp://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/552/transcript …
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@dmcdougall two responses. 1) thanks, this helped some ideas click into place for me! (Is this what Marshal McLuhan is trying to convey?)
@dmcdougall 2) "Subtext is the message" is a great Rosetta stone, but isn't that exactly WHY other minds are chaos? Their text is nonsense.
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@KevinSimler the text is usually either obfuscation or self-delusion. Communication is a form of applied game-theory. -
@KevinSimler taking the text at face value is a terrible strategy for understanding any message.
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@KevinSimler the problem is when you take the text at face value - this is a terrible strategy for understanding another mindThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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