Why I Wish People Spoke Less

I feel like there's way too much talking in the world. Too much unrecorded as well as recorded talking. There's really not that much important stuff to say. I feel like people need really need to speak about a tenth as much as they do. I'm saying the average person. There are some people who are, you know, that's a bell-shaped curve. There are some people in the extremes who probably should be speaking about a hundredth as much as they're speaking. There may be a few people who are not as not speaking as much as they should be. Should be who who who are who are under speaking and should be speaking more. Just in general there's way too much talking. I realized So what what am I on this thing just talking? I'm just talking and talking and talking. It disgusts me. It actually frankly quite frankly it disgusts me. It it quite quite frankly it turns my stomach. The words, all of these words, just the constant interruption of silence. True artist appreciates the silence which serves as foundation of creativity. That's what Douglas Levinson said. True artist learns to respect the silence which serves as the foundation of all creativity. No, but really I hate words. But I love some words. I mean this is called Soul Words. My whole thing is called Soul Words. But I I have a love-hate relationship with words. Um but here's the thing. Here's why I'm here throwing a bunch of words at you. Cuz I realized that most people today will will not sit in silence. They just won't do it. They're they're not going to do it. They're going to consume something. And if I'm, you know, it's it sounds like the worst justification in the world. Like if I don't do it, you know, someone else is going to do it. But really truly it's like it's almost like if you don't spend time with your kids, like who are they going to spend time with, you know? Some whoever, you know, you don't know. God forbid, right? So it's like if I don't put out words most people are going to go and listen to something else. I can't tell you like I don't want to sound like a curmudgeonly old man, but how much damage has been done by stupidity on podcasts. I think papers will be written, books will be written in the not too far distant future about the sociological um ramifications of punditry of democratizing punditry. You know, once upon a time paper and ink was expensive, you know, that kind of put a certain cap on how much people could uh get their word out there. And uh then paper and ink became cheap, but there was no internet yet. And then uh Yeah, I remember the crackpots when they wanted to disseminate their crackpot theories, they'd have to go to the public library and photocopy their screeds, their manifestos, 10 cents a copy, and then like go put it up on telephone poles. And now all they have to do is open up a Twitter account and people will read it. In fact, the more the more unhinged it is, the more likely it is that the algorithm will feed them more people because the algorithm is uh wired to zero in on engagement and it does not distinguish between negative or positive engagement. Engagement is engagement. And you know, like they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity. So, to the contrary, the crazier something is, the more it elicits primal responses, the more uh that content is going to be surfaced by the various social media platforms. So, I feel like there's way too many words going on, and um you know, I'm putting out words cuz these are healing words. It may surprise you to know this, but my intention behind all of my speeches a healing intention. I'm trying to bring comfort, but without um with, you know, I'm trying to bring comfort, but without falling into the trap of pandering. Many communicators bring comfort through pandering to their audience by telling them distortions that they would like to believe. I try to keep it real. I try to be honest, emotionally honest, factually honest. Those are two different things. And at the same time, my intention is is a healing intention.