Serious chatting

Fifty years ago I guess nobody would have thought you could make a living out of chatting, or take it seriously. It’s what you do over a coffee, a  pint or waiting for a bus. If you wanted to rant you got on a soap box in Hyde Park. Now you have chat shows, blogs, columnists, chat rooms, twitter and talk radio. The opportunities for having your say have never been greater.

This morning, the chatter at the well-attended Birmingham Social Media Cafe, was deafening. I’m not joking – I could hardly hear myself think! I thought about this as a paradigm example of the world we live in now – there is so much information and chatter ‘out there’ it can be quite overwhelming sometimes. However, if I was to choose between chatter and silence I think I’d agree with Adrienne Rich when she writes:

‘what in fact I keep choosing

are these words, these whispers, conversations
from which time after time the truth breaks moist and green. ‘

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