| I really think there is more to this. My guess - small changes in the way you use words may reduce the chance that you are badly misunderstood by some people. I love your essays, but our personalities are probably similar. My friend Mike, who was always a word man when I was an idea guy, has a reaction to your writing that is so similar to hers that at first I was sure he was the author of her post. When I read her point by point rebuttal, my reaction is that she seems to be missing the ideas behind the words, fighting the texture of the bark and missing the layout of the forest. But in her mind the bark looks phony so the whole forest is a fraud. The whole tension may be about personality and perspective, not truth and falsehoods. I don't have an answer, or even specific suggestions. But I sense that there is something to learn here. And I suspect that you are more likely to solve the puzzle than she is. |