Conflicted Me

Maitland feels that our culture devalues silence. Our individualism and consumerist need to fulfil ourselves has crowded silence out. So resistance of friends to her plans has itself to be resisted with deeper understanding and the careful explanations in this book

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Well exactly, if we would all just shut up occasionally.
I'm conflicted because I don't see what it has to do with Gawd, I like a nice chat and I would insist on a vow of silence in only specific cases.