Our cyber-friend Jeffery Hodges has just published, and posted at his website, a thoughtful article on the intellectual and cultural requirements for productive discourse. The subject is of particular interest to Jeffery, who is a college professor in Korea — where, in keeping with Confucian social tradition, to question one’s superiors is to get above one’s station, and is often regarded as an insult.
Read it here.
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Thanks for the link, Malcolm.
Jeffery Hodges
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Thanks for the post!
Read your comment “over there” and while this isn’t the original place I too saw it posited (originally – I’m “nearly” certain – it was included in the addendum of an NTSB report – but not in ‘Findings’):
http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/malcolm-gladwell-on-culture-cockpit-communication-and-plane-crashes/