American politics seems to put a hefty premium on the “fast spoken” style and I think a significant portion of people make up their mind about candidates from debates and town halls trusting the oration and sound bite version of people rather than the research and actual plans. It also, to some extent, explains the popularity of ridiculous personalities like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, or even Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field and why people leave conversation with them not knowing why they disagree.
I really like the idea of simply not responding until you have the time to consider your thoughts. I prefer asynchronous communication for just that reason (email vs phone), but slack replacing email for instance is just speeding things back up again. On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:32 AM Dave Long <dave.l...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > "Slow" and "fast" might be better words for what we used to call > "literate" and "oral" communication styles*. > > Although written communication one thousand years ago was almost always > the result of reflection and composition, while spoken communication was > almost always extemporaneous if not spontaneous, we now encounter all four > quadrants in common use: > > fast spoken - oral communication > fast written - texting (conversational online comments?) > slow spoken - prepared speeches, lectures, etc. > slow written - literate communication (epistolary mailing lists?) > > -Dave > > What about podcasts: are they generally fast or slow? > > * this would also explain why a recent BBC article claimed "we" prefer > texting to email, when my preference is the opposite; I'm guessing their > exclusive-rather-than-inclusive "we" (which might include ancient romans, > tut-tutting "lucernam redolet"?) prefer fast to slow. > > > -- Cheerio, Ashim D’Silva Design & build www.therandomlines.com instagram.com/randomlies
