[HN Gopher] Wiio's laws: Communication usually fails, except by ...
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       Wiio's laws: Communication usually fails, except by accident
        
       Author : disintegrator
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-07-20 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | NackerHughes wrote:
       | > If a message can be interpreted in several ways, it will be
       | interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage.
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       | I'm noticing these more and more at work and everywhere else.
       | Every single human interaction is an attack, a snipe, an attempt
       | to clamber over someone else.
       | 
       | It's deliberately exploited to implicate, accuse and judge in a
       | slimy, insidious way that by nature cannot ever be directly
       | called out. In order to succeed you must become an expert in
       | conniving, filthy, back-handed, two-faced poison talk. Verbal
       | backstabbing is an essential life skill. Those who are honest
       | with their words, who speak in literal terms and expect others to
       | be doing the same, are treated as naive suckers, dragged about
       | and tossed aside the moment they cease to be useful.
       | 
       | I'm slowly waking up to the fact that every conversation is a
       | battleground, wherever you go. Even my own family I can't trust.
       | And it's all so tiresome.
        
         | agumonkey wrote:
         | I think it depends on the structure of the group and its
         | emotional ties. For an average group, communication can most
         | often be interpreted negatively, but a good group is one that
         | has a natural reflex and the energy, to right away, clear any
         | ambiguity and restore the joy.
        
         | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
         | > every conversation is a battleground ... And it's all so
         | tiresome.
         | 
         | Perhaps a saying which may help one to avoid too much of a
         | negative thought spiral: "Don't let the bastards grind you
         | down."
        
           | ElevenLathe wrote:
           | Illegitimi non carborundum.
        
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