Monday August 8, 2022; 9:14 AM EDT
- You could write a small manual, A Taxonomy of Stock Comments, that described and categorized the instant responses so many people give on social media.#
- This taxonomy would classify the mental and emotional moves people make to avoid paying attention to what another person actually said--all the varieties of not listening.#
- And the manual would imply, by contrast, what it really means to take note of someone else's life by paying attention to the particular words the person has chosen to represent it and account for it.#