Deviation from the script yields partisan advantage -- even when the partisan advantage goes to people who work very well together. It is also considered sneaky to avoid phrases that lend themselves to your easy classification.
 

This tendency - of pretending not to hear - is in no way related to the skill of listening, or a deficiency therof. When I hear something I do not want to hear - who knows, it might be a pin prick that would burst my bubble of self-delusion, or be an element of some greater grander truth that does not include me, does not have me square in the centre, that points to a reality where the sun does not revolve around ME (imagine that, huh - not bloddy likely) - and when I pretend not to hear it, I have indeed heard it. This is the key to selective hearing. It's not that we select - or choose - to ignore 'it' - we slect or choose to place it elsewhere, as a note, as a note to self: place this man on my enemies list. Perfectly logical.

Pretending not to hear is also a visual signal - noted, duly by the group. (Ah! See head baboon. Ignore weak baboon. Head baboon has colourful ass to allow him do so.)

Number four in the skill set of today's leaders, who put the logical back in the word sociopath.
 

Harry, not sure if that was easy classification. I have no idea what I was saying in this post much less what you said in your comments.

Brian, true - it's not a deficiency. Just a taboo maybe. Superstition? Sort of like John Wayne had never had a bulge in his pants lusting after a young indian woman. It's is inconceivable to portray John Wayne masturbating. He wasn't a human being - he was more than that. He was above masturbating.

This American Nations is fucking falling apart. It's being eaten by its deep desire to be human and yet it can not for it's too good for that. It must be above that. Fucking Puritans.
 

K!,

People in the US expect to be able to classify or pigeonhole others quickly. That lets them know what to expect, and how thay might best go about marketing themselves. It is an audience culture with increasingly narrowing tastes and personality itself has been commodified. Systems interoperability is prized by all the rugged individualists, and they declaim it as one.

To suddenly shout "shit!" in the church is not okay anymore. It is fit or fuck off (cf Jon Husband) in all the parochial comfort zones.

It pains me to attempt to make sense.
 

K! I'll tell you what you were trying to get at. You see it on town council meetings, board meetings, blogs - anything chaired, where power is seated - metaphorically. And literally. The chairman nods when anything uncomfortable comes up - a topic, a question - something not on the agenda. And to Harry's point, I think the thing is this: our lives are not only classified by others we are increasingly narrowing ourselves, into the one dimensional being: whereas, previously, when? who knows, we conceived ourselves as, say, someone with a job, someone with a religious or spiritual life, and someone with a political life - each separte and distinct. For some reason - perhaps it was the fault of the personal fulfillment movement, if such blame can be apportioned, it was seen as desirable to be come One with work, and prayer, and citizenship. It all had to line up. The Branding of the American Person. The homogenization of mind and body and spirit. You job is your life is your mission. Your calling is your sacrifice is your closing down and closing off.

Odd, about the Puritans. Do you realize the Puritans encouraged youngsters to sleep together and have sex before marriage under the roof of the parents?

I'm not sure that a tripartite personhood, for lack of a better phrase, is neccesarily any sort of answer to any sort of question, but Harry, you're on to something - the demand for the niche personality - it reduces the complexity of human beings into a consumable, this commodification of the self. It's a very dangerous game. Like containing nuclear fusion in a tea kettle.

The desire to be human K!. It cannot be contained. Well, it can. And is. But not without consequence. Collapse is imminent.
 

I auto-micro brand, therefore I am.
 

You guys are on a roll. Thanks. Sorry to let you know I got to run. Pack my shit. Fly to Amsterdam and then onto the Lant of the Flee and Hom ov Da Blave. I do want to continue this conversation please. It's not like we are getting anywhere necessarily but some things are gelling, coallescing a bit.

With that in mind Kombinat! is going to America to launch few campaigns. We'll keep you involutarily involoved. Thanks.

Harry - yes, fit or fuck off and we can make it into a Carnival. and yes, it's painful to try to make sense but maybe we don't have to make sense of it.

Brian - yes, power is seated and we can invite it to dance on a narrow narrow line.

More after I get to Texas.
Adios for now.
 

You guys are fucking awesome!

yours,

Appreciative Dullard
 

There is no sense to it. Unless you are a scientist. Then go. Spend the time for the good of mankind or for peer reviews. Either or.

Me? Fuck it.

I once embraced the clue of the cluetrain (still do in some ways).

Breaking news: People do not want to have conversations about your toilet paper. They want to wipe and flush and forget you.

I now create wipe and flush conversations. I leave it to artists and writers to talk about the left overs.

I count the cash and kiss women and hug men. Buy them drinks.

This has nothing to do with the post. Which is the point. Wipe and flush.