Tabooing the word, or tabooing the action? I’d love to read an exploration of what types of signaling one COULD avoid—certainly we can recognize and apply less weight to them, but many (the majority, IMO) of signals are unavoidable, because there are actual goals and evaluations they impact.
Signalling Considered Harmful.
I want to write an essay about how we so dramatically overvalue signalling that it might be good to completely taboo it for oneself.
Tabooing the word, or tabooing the action? I’d love to read an exploration of what types of signaling one COULD avoid—certainly we can recognize and apply less weight to them, but many (the majority, IMO) of signals are unavoidable, because there are actual goals and evaluations they impact.
Action, but also advice to do the action. I think you’re somewhat right.
It seems like an important concept to me. Tabooing it sounds to me like becoming less aware of why things happen.
I need to think about this.