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- [ Why I Don't Talk ] [ By Joseph ]
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- Why I don't talk
- written by Joseph
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- Some years ago I spent a lot of my spare time sitting on cafes, drinking
- coffee, smoking cigarettes and talking with my friends. The topics of the
- discussions we had, were almost always politics and ideologies, and of course
- girls, sex and boose. I am sure that it was a good thing for all of us to get
- a chance to express ourselves and exchange views on some things. However,
- these discussions had an ugly tendency to turn into debates. It almost always
- ended with insults and the level sank lower and lower.
- After a while I learned that no matter what I said, and no matter how good
- my arguments were, I could rarely convince my friends. What it all boiled
- down to was how we valued life and our fellow humans. Sure, when discussing
- politics some progress was sometimes made. But when we talked about
- ideologies we were all stuck.
- I felt trapped. This was the intellectual 'elite' on my school at the time,
- so there was no one else to talk to. Eventually I graduated and went on to
- higher education. I found some new friends and we had some interesting talks.
- I felt that they were not as narrow-minded as my previous friends. What a
- fool I was! It turned out that no matter who I talked to, I could never fully
- convince them of anything. And this is the same everywhere. Try it on your
- friends and you will see that most of them, even when they are all out of
- arguments, will say something like "It doesn't feel right" or "I don't
- believe you!". I found that only the printed word can convince people. And
- this is actually quite funny, because you can print almost any kind of
- bullshit. As long as you present it in a nice format and with seemingly
- logical arguments there will always be people who believe in it.
- I did an experiment with a teacher I had some months ago. I wrote a paper
- about a certain juridical problem consisting of pure bullshit. I did not do
- any research, I just put down complicated words that sounded nice. When I got
- it back, I was scared that I had underestimated her and that I would flunk
- the course. Instead, she was ecstatic. She thought that it was clear that I
- had done some extensive research, and that the paper showed that I had
- analyzed the problem with intellectual sharpness. Nothing could be more
- wrong. I went home that day not happy but even more depressed than usual.
- But, you might say, she is probably not representative for the whole
- population.
- And you would be right.
- Everyone is not as stupid as that. But most of us are.
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- So, I have stopped talking. Instead I am listening and writing.
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