[FRIAM] sometimes an onion is just an onion...

[glen ☣]

Aha!

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/

> LET US RECAPITULATE A BIT: The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society–and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.


Note the emphasis on _listening_ rather than on speaking. >8^D


On 06/15/2017 08:57 AM, glen ☣ wrote:
> On 06/15/2017 08:27 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>> " It's the writer's job to balance and judge the amount of control ... ."
>>
>> So I, as a writer, have to be very slow to be aggrieved when I am not understood.  
>>
>> It's like the salesman blaming the customers for his not making the sale. 
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> 
> I don't know if it can be sourced.  But I really like the aphorism: The problem with communication is the illusion that it exists.
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> 

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☣ glen