The Death of Meaningful Conversation

discussion team sport

https://twitter.com/erichvieth/status/1268003522274037763

Discussion between two people is now a team sport where the two participants must utter only the ideas pre-approved by their respective teams, using only pre-approved language. J.S Mill must be weeping in his grave. Orwell would be shocked that this dysfunction arose organically.

From Erich Vieth on Twitter

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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