On meaningful conversation

Matt Langer has written a passionate piece on the lost art of conversation — simply knowing how to talk to a fellow human being. Here’s an excerpt:

Sometime back we all forgot how to talk to each other. We coveted that McMansion at the end of the cul-de-sac and we put a big screen TV in the living room and bought an SUV to ferry us the two miles to the pharmacy and piled up countless other material additions to our lives that helped set up barriers between us and other people.

We subscribed to news weeklies that told us what we wanted to hear and got national newspapers delivered to our stoops that best reflected our tastes and we got cable packages to let us watch what we wanted to watch and internet access to let us read what we wanted to read and in the process we all became a little more focused, a little more narrowed, a little more myopic.

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Source: langer

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