the reason

this blog is supposed to be about, in part, honesty in speech, meaning in conversation, reality. i first started thinking seriously about this when i was living in amsterdam, the netherlands. after having been there for a few weeks, i realized that there was a lack of superfluous speech. people would say hello, or good morning as a greeting, but never “how are you doing?” or “what’s up?” unless they really had the time to hear the answer. returning to the US accentuated my awareness of this phenomena with banal utterances of “let’s get together soon” or “i know what you mean” during conversation. i designed a line of t-shirts and posters about the subject. ok. good.