Dangling conversation

A few posts ago I mentioned an article that dealt with the internet and meta-ignorance, and the use of the Duper phones play into that.  Those phones suck all the joy out of a good conversation..."wait a minute while I look that up."  While the item in question is being searched there is often dead air, or the topic shifts and nobody cares what the actual fact might be.  Such is the fluid nature of verbal discourse.

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I have no idea where Uncle Ken's conversation about conversations is supposed to be headed, so let me say it's a form of social interaction that many people like.  Its form has changed, if the number of Nit-Twitters is any indication, but it's still a social activity and a form of personal expression.  The nature of society is changing, but it's still a society.

Conflict resolution is another fine use for conversation.  Should we keep fighting until we are all dead, or should we maybe talk over a few things; perhaps there are some misunderstandings that can be clarified.  Just asking, but haven't these tribal blood feuds gone on long enough?

But that completely ignores the "might makes right" factions, I know. "We want your land/food/water/oil and we're gonna take it, dammit, by any means fair or foul?"  There's a lot of that going on, too, and no amount of conversation will change anything.

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Here's a curious notion to ponder...after the Fat man visited Mexico, one of the guys in the Mexican government proposed a repeal of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo if the Chump was elected US president.  That would be something if Mexico wanted its land back.

Nothing more has been said about it since then, but it's something to think about.  They could declare that anybody in that area with Mexican heritage is an immediate sovereign citizen of Mexico, with all rights and privileges thereof. There's quite a few people already occupying the territory, aren't there?   A new fence would be required.