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The only thing we ever do.

  The only thing we ever do, the only thing we will ever do, and the only thing we can do is communicate.
 
 
   Here is how communication works-

                                        INFORMATION------------> IDEA

   "Information" is here defined as: anything in the universe. "Idea" is here defined as : anything that follows from that information.

    There are three basic kinds of communication. They are:
    1. Communication with other people.
    2. Communication with oneself.
    3. Communication with the universe.

    The four basic skills of communication are-
    1. Describing.
    2. Explaining.
    3. Asking.
    4. Checking.

    It should be noted that "education" generally makes hardly any effort to encourage asking and checking, and offers very limited ideas of describing and explaining.
    The reasons for this are very simple. Society is constructed to meet the demands of those in power. Generally, education serves to train people to continue those systems that meet the demands of those in power. If people were encouraged to communicate, then those systems would naturally change in ways that wouldn't suit those with power.
    If you want to keep the status quo, then you need to discourage communication. In countries like China and North Korea it is easy to observe how those in power put limits on information. North Koreans have access to only government-approved media. In China it's not quite as strict but information is controlled in a similar way.
    In countries like Britain, the U.S. and Japan, it is much more difficult to control information and so a lot of effort is put into discouraging  people's ability to deal with information. Very simply, small children enter school with their natural ability to communicate largely intact. When they leave the education system, as adults, their natural ability to communicate has almost always received some serious damage.

    Dogs communicate, and dogs are usually having a great time. Ants communicate, and have some of the most successful societies on the planet. So why should anyone care about improving communication?
    Because all the improvements that have ever taken place in human society are inextricably linked to better communication. That is to say, increases in: information ----> idea,  and more questions and better explanations are always the reasons for improvements in people's lives.
    If we want to continue to improve things in the future then we necessarily have to be trying to improve communication.

    I would think that trying to improve things and make things better is generally a good idea. But of course, why should people trust some guy who doesn't even have an ironing board? We've got beer and football and television, why can't we just be happy with that? Why shouldn't we all just be Nazis? How do we decide these things?
    We decide these things by communication. Because that's the only thing we ever do.

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