It makes me think of Socrates's old thing about how static writing is, and how the back and forth of dialogue is so important >Writing is unfortunately like pa

It makes me think of Socrates's old thing about how static writing is, and how the back and forth of dialogue is so important >Writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put a question to one of them, the speaker always gives one unvarying answer. And when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves. I think a lot of what we're learning in this new era is that the pub/sub model of talking to each other has some real weaknesses compared to immediate dialogue (which has its own weaknesses). Unfortunately, twitter, facebook, blogs, reddit, the news, and really all social media I'm aware of is more pub/sub than dialogue. Without dialogue, you have to interpret and assume. With what I'll define as "real" dialogue here, you'd just ask for clarification until you're on the same page.