{"id":17801,"date":"2019-06-12T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:13:26","slug":"communication-error-spilling-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/06\/12\/communication-error-spilling-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Error<\/em>: Spilling voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jogging at a standstill, layering yourself into position, and dripping into place\u2014not unlike a gelatin mould of yourself. Voices are running wild, and they are running nowhere. Where exactly are you going, voices, and are you not already somewhere you wish to be? Spending time devising ways to spend time isn\u2019t exactly useful right now, if ever at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are told by voices frequently and with such authority that we ought to be doing something else, or that we should be doing something more important; it is as if we are expected to split ourselves into two. One of us is conforming to the rules and regulations of our \u201cought to\u201d selves, while the other is the actual one here, right now. It is the former that looks as if they are in motion but goes nowhere, and the latter that slowly drips away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Communication Error<\/em> is a column in every issue of Nexus<\/em> looking at communication issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With copious amounts of so-called \u201cfreedom,\u201d our first self buys into our social contracts that it believes are ours to begin with, because, after all, that is what \u201cwe\u201d wanted, isn\u2019t it?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the edge of the knife feels as smooth as the softest pillow, it is time to wake up. Your pillow is not that soft and knives are not that dull. Our second self, however, is already here and experiences the pillows and knives as they are, not as others wish them to be. After all, what are we listening to: voices or feelings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written in red all over the walls, our obligations yell at us, but at least the walls have no ears and cannot hear silly voices, unlike us. Come to think of it, the voices are in our heads\u2026 what a silly metaphor. Most people do not take that phrase to be a metaphor, and yet where are there voices? Literally? Are they swimming around in the bloodstream or the neurological pathways? Only the ears perceive sounds and voices, and only we can understand laughter. Perhaps the voices reside in the mind, but that too is only figurative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we spend all of our time planning our time\u2014living right now, for the future that may never be\u2014then we are layering ourselves into a position that does not equally serve us as it does our voices. \u201cThen what shall we say back to the voices?\u201d another voice asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you like to say? Where is your voice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI miss you,\u201d said a voice. Another voice whispered only laughter. And a third voice murmured, \u201cThey are already gone.\u201d Which one are you\u2014or do you hear no voices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jogging at a standstill, layering yourself into position, and dripping into place\u2014not unlike a gelatin mould of yourself. Voices are running wild, and they are running nowhere. Where exactly are you going, voices, and are you not already somewhere you wish to be? Spending time devising ways to spend time isn\u2019t exactly useful right now, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-june-12-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17802,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions\/17802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}