Forum Overview :: Steam :: "dull minds talk about others"

[quote name="up with pod people"]further: the Eleanor Roosevelt quote is nothing but moralizing tricked out as a paean to intellectualism. people/events/concepts is a false trichotomy; <i>every conversation is about people</i>. there is no story <i>but</i> the human interest story. events are only relevant in how they involve or affect people. concepts are only relevant in how they involve or affect people. the successful cavemen were the wary ones, the quick ones, and the ones who formed strong social bonds. A large part of social awareness is having good intel -- knowing about people. the very same church ladies and betrayed politicos who moralize about gossiping are also the art's experts, and powerful community builders because of it. the only real way to know the future is to know people, how they will react, what it is likely they will do. (huh. apparently caltrops is the pinnacle of human evolution, full of tweaked agoraphobe paranoiacs with game-sharpened reflexes)[/quote]