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Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Aug 15 14:59:02 PDT 2001


At 02:37 PM 8/15/01 -0700, Ian wrote:
>Do you really expect people to do philosophy, science and other 'deep'
>discourse all the time, or do you never make 'small talk'?
>
>Ian

Small talk in all male company usually centers on two topics: sports and degrading women. In a mixed company - it usually centers on tee-vee shows. As much quality and variety as numbers 1 through 6 in a burger joint.

PS. Tee-vee and passive entertainment it offers has a really poisonous effect on small talk and social skills. In the "good old days" people had no choice but to enterntain themselves when they got together, and that encouraged them to develop humor, with and social skills. Today people passively watch tee-vee, even when they meet other people, or regurgitate stuff spoon-fed to them by the entertainment industry - no thinking or social skills are required.

wojtek



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