It occurs to me that nobody cares about discussion anymore. Sure people are more than happy to talk but that’s just half of the equation, you have to be able to listen too.
It seems as though that even in the rare occasion that a person can deign to listen to another almost never will they really hear them, sure they’ll go through the motions they will maintain eye contact and nod at the appropriate moments, every now and again make a confirmative noise to assure the other that they understand that every word has passed from tongue to ear without incident but this is nothing but a farce, a hollow performance one does while internally counting each second until next they can vomit their own proclamations to their unsuspecting victim, ignorant of what their partner has said and all the happier for it.
People of the modern era have developed an impressive resilience of the mind preventing all alien ideas from penetrating it while also maintaining a animalistic killer instinct to destroy all ideas of their competitors, there can be no room for compromise, no show of weakness, such is the law of the jungle, such is the law of contemporary discourse because if you were to give an inch they would take a mile, so you must seize the very land beneath them before they can. For all our lives we remain imprisoned within our own heads only capable of communicating with our fellow jailbirds through a limited and convoluted system of sounds ill fit to express the concepts they represent. The last thing such a fragile setup needs is to be weighed down by complications.
Their are millions of people in this world that talk to each other every day, but I do not think I have ever had a single conversation with any of them, I think that one day I might like to.
