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"Us and Them" (Pink Floyd song cover) performed by Lucia Lilikoi, lyrics: Up and down... and in the end It's only round and round, and round. "Haven't you heard it's a battle of words?" The poster bearer cried
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Having unknown autism at that time (I was not diagnosed until 2008 / 2009) in 1997 and 1998.... I didn't fully deeply grasp how much people only cared about eye contact patterns, body language, word choices, speed of speech, length of sentences, formatting of paragraphs, egoism / self-centered mirroring of their individual mind. I thought diversity across the world was great and wanted to travel and live overseas (which I did in 2004, going to Arica Chile for a full year, later on to Algeria in Africa, Jordan in the Middle East, beyond to Indonesia and Malaysia all to self-study media ecology and relationships people have with communications and priorities of what they favor and further to the next generation / children).
I would rather just quote a book and cite a great writer, I was already an author and professional technical editor, I had edited entire books on IBM OS/2 - and I knew how books were created.
Why would I want to make every conversation an ego pissing / dick measuring contest like Steve Jobs had established in the computer industry top executives space I was working in since I had started working for SAP (Germany's largest software company)?
"Elevator pitch" to Executives with billions of dollars, at that time Bill Gates and Paul Allen were the 1st and 3rd richest in the world, Warren Buffet at number 2. The ability to charm and convince people with just the right e-mail communications, office memo, or speaking skills would turn your life around in that office where I worked for two and a half years.
Since Q4 2014, I realized that the whole Internet had changed, Facebook and Reddit mostly where I was "reading the room" / studying mass mind (hive mind, mass man) shifts. I prefer Reddit (Lemmy-like) because it allows verbose long messages, hyperlinks to sources, and quotations. Everything not Twitter. But things changed in year 2013, and by Q3 2015 I realized it was "Eternal September" even deeper in the mind, a permanent change had happened since 2013 and it was in no way reversing, short-term trend, a fad - when I contacted the Pentagon and reported that there were active measures and drastic behavioral changes on social media systems (first time I ever reported anything to the federal government in my life).
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“English, strictly speaking, is not my first language by the way. I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things. I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first language can be written down at all. I'm not sure it can be made external you see. I think it has to stay where it is; simmering in the elastic gloom betwixt my flickering organs.” ― Claire-Louise Bennett