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sometimes discussion means making yourself pliable to change, and this necessitates vulnerability and exposing yourself, therefore a prerequisite for this is trust, or at least, if not trust, that the person feel comfortable with the other person and the context in which the discussion is to take place, inviting the other person to intellectual intercourse, co-shaping the most intimate aspect of themselves, their thoughts, ideas, beliefs, hopes, fears, in this way giving birth to other ideas, attitudes and ways of seeing things, and in a way, to a new person, ever becoming

people are constantly bombarded by messages through media, and people in the street, or calling them on the phone, trying to influence them, all want to have a say in the shaping, and in a way they inevitably do. are you bemoaning that people are not more readily pliable to your whims and suggestions? maybe they were before and learned the hard way to put up defenses, or maybe plenty came before you to shape them in such a way and to such a degree as you would have wished, and you just came too late