[FRIAM] Few of you ...

[Marcus Daniels]

If you were really antisocial, you wouldn't care how you seem.   It seems to me this is more a tactic for executing conversations rather than a necessity.   One could merely inhibit the self in various ways topic by topic.   As for alcohol, it actually becomes easier for me to do this, as my inner nihilist comes out who doesn't feel the need to reconcile the every single thing my nutcase discussant has to say.

On 1/15/19, 11:39 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

    There's another, more subtle, reason to adopt roles.  To have a fully Socratic conversation, you have to commit to an extra extent to play along with things your authentic, fully complex, individual self may not agree with.  The most well-known role is Devil's Advocate.  But there are many others.  If I don't adopt the role, I end up just sitting there listening politely ... which people have told me seems "aloof" or "stand-off-ish".