Interesting reflections, Justin. “Rabid loquaciousness”? That’s a great characterization and phrase (!) and quite applicable to all kinds of media experiences today (social media, a fast-paced 24-hour news cycle, etc.). I wonder, given the spoken word, the written, and additionally silence as options for relating “meaning” to others, how would a person place in this schema the perhaps endless “loquaciousness” we experience internally within our own stream of consciousness / subjectivity / self? Of course, you might be able to say this “internal space” also simultaneously embodies through remembrance the spoken, the written, and the silent, if not unconscious experience in say a Freudian sense. I merely am expanding here on the excellent platform you establish in the three periods of communication you discuss. It’d be interesting to hear your response to any of these topics I suggest.
Always good to learn your reflections in language. Henry Mills
Thanks for reading and great to hear from you always, Henry!
All I could think of when it comes to the internal word is what the Stoics called the logos endiathetos, the word as it resonates in the mind. In the schema above, I think I'd place it somewhere between silence and the spoken word....
Interesting reflections, Justin. “Rabid loquaciousness”? That’s a great characterization and phrase (!) and quite applicable to all kinds of media experiences today (social media, a fast-paced 24-hour news cycle, etc.). I wonder, given the spoken word, the written, and additionally silence as options for relating “meaning” to others, how would a person place in this schema the perhaps endless “loquaciousness” we experience internally within our own stream of consciousness / subjectivity / self? Of course, you might be able to say this “internal space” also simultaneously embodies through remembrance the spoken, the written, and the silent, if not unconscious experience in say a Freudian sense. I merely am expanding here on the excellent platform you establish in the three periods of communication you discuss. It’d be interesting to hear your response to any of these topics I suggest.
Always good to learn your reflections in language. Henry Mills
Thanks for reading and great to hear from you always, Henry!
All I could think of when it comes to the internal word is what the Stoics called the logos endiathetos, the word as it resonates in the mind. In the schema above, I think I'd place it somewhere between silence and the spoken word....