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[ Why I Don't Talk ] [ By Joseph ]
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Why I don't talk
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written by Joseph
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Some years ago I spent a lot of my spare time sitting on cafes, drinking
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coffee, smoking cigarettes and talking with my friends. The topics of the
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discussions we had, were almost always politics and ideologies, and of course
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girls, sex and boose. I am sure that it was a good thing for all of us to get
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a chance to express ourselves and exchange views on some things. However,
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these discussions had an ugly tendency to turn into debates. It almost always
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ended with insults and the level sank lower and lower.
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After a while I learned that no matter what I said, and no matter how good
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my arguments were, I could rarely convince my friends. What it all boiled
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down to was how we valued life and our fellow humans. Sure, when discussing
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politics some progress was sometimes made. But when we talked about
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ideologies we were all stuck.
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I felt trapped. This was the intellectual 'elite' on my school at the time,
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so there was no one else to talk to. Eventually I graduated and went on to
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higher education. I found some new friends and we had some interesting talks.
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I felt that they were not as narrow-minded as my previous friends. What a
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fool I was! It turned out that no matter who I talked to, I could never fully
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convince them of anything. And this is the same everywhere. Try it on your
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friends and you will see that most of them, even when they are all out of
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arguments, will say something like "It doesn't feel right" or "I don't
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believe you!". I found that only the printed word can convince people. And
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this is actually quite funny, because you can print almost any kind of
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bullshit. As long as you present it in a nice format and with seemingly
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logical arguments there will always be people who believe in it.
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I did an experiment with a teacher I had some months ago. I wrote a paper
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about a certain juridical problem consisting of pure bullshit. I did not do
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any research, I just put down complicated words that sounded nice. When I got
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it back, I was scared that I had underestimated her and that I would flunk
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the course. Instead, she was ecstatic. She thought that it was clear that I
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had done some extensive research, and that the paper showed that I had
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analyzed the problem with intellectual sharpness. Nothing could be more
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wrong. I went home that day not happy but even more depressed than usual.
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But, you might say, she is probably not representative for the whole
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population.
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And you would be right.
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Everyone is not as stupid as that. But most of us are.
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So, I have stopped talking. Instead I am listening and writing.
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uXu #382 Underground eXperts United 1997 uXu #382
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