Universal Satisfaction Moment by Moment
This is the theory. Unless this condition is met, there is no conversation. Non-conversational situations have a number of possibilities, all degenerate:
A meandering series of sub-conversations, each marked by a change of subject;
A set of mutually unintelligible (and thus unreproducible) social gestures;
A forced, unsatisfying rehearsal of convention (“How are you?” “Fine, thank you. How are you?” “Excellent. Wonderful.” “Goodbye.” “Goodbye.”);
Other possibilities.
None of these should be called conversation.
True conversation, the hyperuranian ideal that guides all social impulse and all social interaction (all close cooperation), is an all-embracing condition of pleasure or love. It is this exalted (and surprisingly rare) ideal that everyone in human life is constantly trying to revive or recover instinctively in all social interactions.
