Culture encodes silences with meanings. We have context-sensitive opinions on rudeness/civility/caring levels of various silence durations..
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...the big challenge for those of us trying to go maximally asynchronous in our lives is to drain silences of their cultural significance...
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...sadly, this has a major cost. He very texture of kairos as opposed to chronos is illegible unfinished business hanging in the air...
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...to the extent relationships *are* a shared stream of consciousness, to legibilize a state enough to save it is to make it transactional..
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