Daniel Andrews has clearly never heard the dictum by psychologist and philosopher Ernst von Glasersfeld “you can’t not communicate.”
Giving someone the silent treatment is a type of communication. Grandstanding and delivering endless orders of word salad no one wanted is also a type of communication. A type of communication that serves no purpose and has no value.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests the language one speaks is how one thinks about reality.
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