How do you learn to communicate effectively? You don't. Beyond the cheap rhetorical trick, if one takes the effectiveness of communication to it's extreme they

How do you learn to communicate effectively? You don't. Beyond the cheap rhetorical trick, if one takes the effectiveness of communication to it's extreme they will reach what the French call "langue de bois", wooden language, as can be seen in the annals of parliamentary speeches of yesteryear or in the buzzwords-filled tech articles of today. And by aiming for pure effectiveness you can only achieve a wooden language since only there, in the dried-out forest of semantical nothingness and nonsense, you can reach a general consensus: we all know what "artificial intelligence blockchain-driven cloud-computing" means: close the article and move on. This implies that the effectiveness of communication should only be one of the means to reach a goal. What could that goal be? Simply put: the goal of any communication should only be that of emerging out of it as a truth-teller. How to be a truth-teller? Use only the public reason. Two rather heavy concepts above. The first, the truth-teller (parrhesiastes in Greek [1]) is a concept developed by Michel Foucault in the final lectures held at Collège de France [2], especially in 'The Courage of Truth', the Second Hour from February 1, 1984 speaks of "the truth-telling of the technician". And being a truth-teller you would never worry about being demeaning or hurtful because sometimes you would simply have to be so and you will only care about the courage of being a truth-teller, when calling the murderous naked king a murderous naked king. The second concept is a dichotomy developed by Immanuel Kant between private and public use of reason [3]. For Kant 'private' does not mean that which I do in solitude, but that which belongs to my self-interest. We often hear the phrase "free speech" and all the phraseology surrounding it. But we never ask, free of what should the speech be? Kant answers: free of your own self-interests, perceived as such or surreptitiously attached by others. By using the public reason, one is indeed free, a truth-teller on the way to enlightenment, on the way to "emerge out of the self-imposed nonage". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrhesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrhesia [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_lectures_at_the_Coll%C3%A8ge_de_France#The_Courage_of_Truth_(1983%E2%80%931984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_lectures_at_the_C... [3] 1784, Kant, Immanuel, What is Enlightenment? http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html and in the beautiful language of the Romanticism, German, "Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit", https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/159_kant.pdf https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/159_kant.p...