Words! At least, for people capable of literal communication. You gotta interpret words as they’re said, not as they sound or seem.
Math. This was a subject in the movie Contact.
Math is what you get when you agree to disagree on all but 8 axioms (1). Then go “yeah? prove it” on any other statement.
How do you communicate this with math? Makes the Italian chin flick gesture.
While I’m aware of Contact, and know it relates to people, do you really agree with that premise? Isn’t the inconsistency in employed units of measure sufficient to indicate otherwise?
Violence is the universal form of communication.
Ever heard of the saying “Walk a mile in my shoes”? So the clearest means of conveying information would be to encapsulate someone’s entire life experience up to that point, temporarily transfer that state to the other person and allow them to understand the entire background of how that information came to be. Do that back and forth and you have the clearest means of communicating information between people.
This depends on the information and the recipient, every single time. Genuine understanding between two minds is more rare and precious than gold, and it fades all too quickly. It is like a flower once picked. You tend that garden if you want more than one.
People intentionally want to be misinformed.
So telling them what they want to hear is my suggestion.
Books, not just reading but long form text. If someone doesn’t want listen, then they won’t even if they pretend otherwise.
So if a talented author puts out a message, the reader has to continually choosing to read, intake and process what is being communicated. It’s easy to tune out of conversation, videos or lectures without realizing it. But if you make it to the end of the page and don’t know what just happened, it’s entirely at your discretion to go back and reprocess. Infinitely repeatable while requiring constant buy-in without the concept of just waiting out the duration while thinking of other things. To my mind, if you want to understand a complex idea than books are easily the best method.
Psychedelics, man.
Because they’re like, cool, man.
Repetition. Be it in written, audio, or video form, repeating in until they’re saturated in it.
Surrounded by flames at the end of an 18 hour shift. When it matters, you fuckin hear it.
