I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT !
"I don't want to talk about it!" is an assertion that virtually everyone has delivered and/or received. Thinking about that assertion, I believe, is worth the effort. And, inspired by the ancient Dutch Aphorism, "Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback" I frame this blog post in terms of a trust-discuss nexus. Let's begin with the fact that talk has its evolutionary-physiological roots in a sensation-perception-action complex. The volitional actions of all mobile organisms usually are directed toward perceived life-sustaining targets and away from life-threatening ones. Our primate, non-human ancestors, like all mammals, typically would flee from or attack a perceived approaching dangerous agent; they were limited to such direct actions. But homo-sapiens evolved a language system that enabled them to mentally “decide,” however quickly, slowly, effectively, or ineffectively their response, and when the threatening agent was a language-possessing human,...