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Mixed feelings on this. Tell culture allows people to express their feelings directly without prompting, but can also be used manipulatively when insisted on as
by rachelshu 3y ago
Mixed feelings on this. Tell culture allows people to express their feelings directly without prompting, but can also be used manipulatively when insisted on as a behavioral standard by someone who's overbearing relative to the people they're around.
For further reading, here's the blog post that named the concept:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rEBXN3x6kXgD4pLxs/tell-culture https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rEBXN3x6kXgD4pLxs/tell-cultu...
And further discussion within the same community:
https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/against-tell-culture/ https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/against-tell-...
There were a bunch of tumblr posts on this as well which are more work than it's worth to go recover.