One of the most mortifying features of our times is that people can't communicate anymore, or if they do, it's a dying conversation. And from the role of natural communicators they pass to that of subjects undergoing the shock wave of communication, assuming even unwillingly an enormous amount of information, data, and numbers. Of statistics, polls, and opinions.

But what is more striking is that the much more one chats, the much less he says. One of the most recurring idioms, which is used and abused, is that pet phrase which is now being more and more inserted in a sentence: '… some way''.  I may ask: in what way? 'Some way…'' means that something you're asserting isn't completely sincere, it doesn't specify the whole condition it refers to, nor does it tell exactly the quality of a statement. And when one uses it, what 'way'' does he/she refer to? First of all, who makes use of it is generally a person a bit exhibitionist dialectically, whose culture is above average. The expression 'some way'' is the product of today's generation, deprived of ideological references and certainties, insecure rationally as well as spiritually. That way of saying is a sort of musical companion piece to the sentence, which it extends a bit while giving it some cultural depth. 'Some way'': what a wrongfooting sentence and, most of all, useless! Away from those who use it. How many superfluous words in the daily language of the fake cultivated people…

For sure, in the civilization of the excesses of 'disinformatia'', of communicators who can't communicate, our little man is obliged to suffer every day a flood of data and news, and he makes use of those sentences to defend himself, thinking he's protecting himself from a process which he's forced to be part of, but which he would be glad to do without most of the times. The process of self-identification with an example, with a concept. Or with a language. Man uses those sentences to assert an identity, often not understanding that the very use of them entails his annihilation. Better be silent sometimes. Since, in a world which can't appreciate anymore, silence is the sound of quality and cleverness. And of confidence in the future.

'Let thy speach be better than silence or be silent'', Dionisius said.

Book of the week: The end of humankind by Francis Fukuyama