Unfortunately there are cultures where interpersonal relationships are more personalized than in others: where people (generally) understand any criticism as targeting the self (that mysterious whole) and not the idea/point.
Work meetings are one way rhetoric in such parts, famously boring and result in as much creativity as the authority has. Usually less civilized places posses a weaker level of abstraction. (When everything is urgent, nothing is hypothetical.)
So it isn’t only a question of sub-optimal methods chosen by various individuals—be they politicians—to make a friendlier world, but of big groups, entire mentality groups, for which the very term “dialogue” has other boundaries. So the play-safe, good-for-all economical solution is to forbid criticism or to use extreme relativism for everything. The “holistic” conversation.
We all do it sometimes, out of interest or ignorance.
Unfortunately there are cultures where interpersonal relationships are more personalized than in others: where people (generally) understand any criticism as targeting the self (that mysterious whole) and not the idea/point.
Work meetings are one way rhetoric in such parts, famously boring and result in as much creativity as the authority has. Usually less civilized places posses a weaker level of abstraction. (When everything is urgent, nothing is hypothetical.)
So it isn’t only a question of sub-optimal methods chosen by various individuals—be they politicians—to make a friendlier world, but of big groups, entire mentality groups, for which the very term “dialogue” has other boundaries. So the play-safe, good-for-all economical solution is to forbid criticism or to use extreme relativism for everything. The “holistic” conversation.
We all do it sometimes, out of interest or ignorance.
Here’s an interesting take on that