Matt,
I appreciate your explicit citation of Heidegger. Honestly, I have not read more than 70 pages of Heidegger, so I am not able to really assess your thinking in connection with his philosophy. However, your post has inspired me to give Heidegger another try.
For my own sake, I’ll just keep things simple [...]

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Tony, I realize in reading your response that you provocatively went in a direction I was not intending. This, in itself, I think demonstrates the break between what is sent and what is received. It is the absence of a universal discourse/medium, the singularity of our identities, the uniqueness of our context, etc. [...]

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Dear Matt,
Thanks, once again, for the provocative questions you raised in your post, The Violence of Messages.
At the outset of your post, you comment on the sent and the unsent. My imagination was titillated by “unsent.” What is unsent? Your comments lead me to think that what is not sent is the (entire) meaning [...]

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