The purpose of cooking?
What is the purpose of cooking? What does this tell us about the purpose of conversation? What else?
:- Doug.
Archive for March 10th, 2022
The prime role of conversation:
So the prime role of conversation is creating: finding something new, or mixing in a new way, or making something that never before existed. It is imagination even beyond creating. It is increasing the possible. It is imagining and thinking and working together. The idea that conversation is simply encoding a message, transmitting it, and decoding it, misses its worth. It is a feast, a party! It is beyond give and take in which there are losers more than winners: it is everyone benefits. The prime role of conversation is poetry: making.
:- Doug.
The lived values of conversation
What are the lived values of conversation? Everyone has a contribution of worth. Hearing is of the highest value. Allowing in things so they can work and make something new. Life. Nourish. Curiosity. Seeking the surprises. Moving. Novelty. Making. Finding. Discontinuity.
One of those values has to be sharing so to build the life of all. The commerce of sharing, the flow, makes it clear that withholding is the primary death, the primary sin. We grow in and by way of interchange. The exchange that happens in conversation is the seed of living, growing, standing forth.
:- Doug.
