Communication.
One of the current mantras used across society is excusing failure with poor communication. Poor communication by the government despite doing a good job, inept presentation of their efforts by most politicians or political parties despite their sincere efforts. But mismanagement of communication is also pointed out on a more general scale, for example, in companies, in offices, in school facilities, in sports teams, in cultural settings, at condominium owners' meetings, just about everywhere.
The term communicate comes from Latin and its basic meaning is: to connect, in the sense of to transmit and receive information. If it was only about that, then it could be said that we manage communication very well. We transmit information. We receive it and share it as well. What is worse is evaluating, sorting and dealing with it. There is clearly a weak point. This is doubly true for the 'modern' mode of communication, namely the exchange of messages via social networks, chat platforms and online comments on published articles and posts. The demand for absolute freedom of expression and a socially desirable, indefinable sense of fair play or objectivity meet and clash. Is it censorship versus anarchy? Not exactly. Constantly pointing out someone's inability to communicate meaningfully is tricky. The very act of accentuating someone's subjectively perceived deficiency is on the edge of correctness, though it undoubtedly fulfills the attribute of free expression. Any creation of a code, in the sense of classifying information and judging the correctness and appropriateness of its flow, contains within it the germ of censorship; by contrast, the absence of such a manual allows for anarchy. It is as if we are in a vicious circle that we have drawn for ourselves and forgotten to get out of. Communication itself and its 'mastery' contain a problematic normative that in itself prevents the achievement of the desired goal, that is, the completion of the journey of information from provider to receiver without manipulative additives. As a human society, we have in our hands an instrument that we have not yet learned to use in such a way that the benefits outweigh the minuses and losses. Yet we must, want to, and will communicate because if we do not, we will find ourselves in a vacuum.
A separate chapter is the unintended or accidental juxtapositions of messages having, in some cases, tragicomic consequences. An innocuous example is the farewell press conference of Minister Blatný, accompanied in the headline by the balance sheet information on the total number of infected and dead. A sort of subtle credit to the bill issued for the Minister's activities. A minor, wanted/unwanted, but all the more symbolic error in communication.
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