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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (57065)	9/6/2002 5:00:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Scientific studies tell us that in communication 75% to 80% of what is communicated is communicated at the non-verbal level. People hiding are understood as people hiding. Less genuine is picked up as less genuine. Many things cannot be done over the telephone, and many misunderstandings occur, because of the limited channel you get when you go auditory only. Print is even more limited. And when you combine print with anonymity, I don't think you've got much "person" anymore. Like your lions in print. How scary is this "GROWL"? how scary is the word "LION"- if there is no real lion next to you?

To: Solon who wrote (57065)	9/9/2002 11:27:13 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You raise some interesting caveats. There is a greater latitude for role playing here. We may disguise our age, our sex, our location, our social class, and other details much more easily than in "3D". I agree that it is reasonable to assume that most people are truthful most of the time, but the element of doubt is, I think, necessarily greater. And while you are right that we have a freedom here to shoot from the hip without social sanction, which is missing in normal social interaction, it remains true that intonation, expression, gesture, and attitude, as evidenced by physical disposition, are valuable aids to understanding the precise meaning of someone's conversation. Finally, you are right, people do not cease to exist because they use aliases or refrain from face- to- face encounter. Lenin and Stalin became known by their aliases, and J.D. Salinger is not only reclusive, but one of the most influential novelists of the post- War period.......