(Note: First Drafted in June 2023, left dangling for awhile with areas for expansion. Snipped and garnished July 2024).
One communicates to improve the local community: that is, a municipality in a broad civilization of communities. This is done not for the community’s “good” per se, but because a healthy community is advantageous to the civic life of the individual. Conversely, the only standard for judging the “health” of a community is by how it affects the individual. This is pretty standard stuff for Austrian School methodological individualists and philosophical Objectivists alike.
If communication becomes impossible, then being “in communion” becomes impossible, and no community can be shown to exist. Communication requires a common language, not just in phonetic or lexical elements, but also in conceptual graphs of related assumptions, definitions, premises and conclusions.
A lexical language can be used to carry multiple conceptual languages, and a conceptual language can be carried on multiple lexical languages.
Conversation is having words with some person or persons. While there may be a connotation that there is some egalitarian aspect by the use of a word with the “co/com/con” beginning; that is more cognitively dissonant than actual.
A conversation may be a one to many (broadcast) with responses being vetted, controlled and regulated by enforced policy or real or perceived threat of reprisals for communicating outside the box. A conversation may be a one to one, with one being in a materially superior organizational position to another; or in a completely different aspect of an organization to another with no “power-over” the other. A conversation may be with a customer or prospect with any arbitrary or unknown degree of accountability or freedom to act within their respective organization.
Pursuit of Value 