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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9003131.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %MEDIUM MOLD TRANSFORM COMMUNICATE EMBODY MESSAGE 900313 It has been said that the medium is the message. While there is not an identity between the medium which is used to communicate a message and the content of the message, it is true that the medium by which a message is communicated does much to mold the content of the message received. Not every medium of communication has the power to embody and transport every possible content. The message of a healthy hug cannot be communicated effectively by means of a set of differential equations; or vice versa. The message of a moving piece of music cannot be communicated by means of the form of a formal scientific report with graphs, equations, and footnotes. Any effort to communicate a message by means of a medium which is poorly suited to the intended message is bound to transform the intended message into a message more suited to the medium; and so the effort will obscure, confuse, conceal, etc. the original message. The medium molds the message to conform to the potentialities of the medium. The message as received is not identical with the intended message sent. The person who receives a message may be tuned into a somewhat different wavelength (medium) than the wavelength (medium) the message was transmitted on. The receiver of a message may receive/perceive a different message by virtue of trying to receive it via a different medium than the intended transmission medium. Rarely is a message transmitted via just one medium. Spoken words are spoken with bodies which are at the same time transmitting body-language messages. The words of a language are spoken in tones which convey emotions far beyond the literal meaning of the strings of words. Written words are perceived to have messages written between the lines; and the tacit rules of perception may not correspond to the rules by which the messages were placed between the lines. Art, music, dance, body language, sex, facial expressions, eye contact, etc. all convey messages according to patterns about which there is only partial agreement as regards meaning. People who are tuned into only a one or a very few of all the channels of communication received distorted messages from people who transmit only via a different set of channels of communication. People who are limited as to which channels of communication they are willing/able to send and receive messages, are thereby limited as to the kinds of messages by which they are able to communicate. They cut themselves off from others if they demand that communications be transmitted on their limited channels of communication. They limit with whom they can communicate if they transmit and receive only on their limited channels of communication. The medium of communication is not literally the same thing as the message communicated, but the medium certainly plays a major role in determining what message is received, internalized and acted upon. What really counts are the actions which follow the reception of whatever message gets across in the communication process. Because human creatures have limited time, energy, abilities, skills, etc. humans tend to specialize as regards to the mediums and messages which they can communicate effectively. Because humans often have inadequate self esteem they seek to bolster their own self esteem by having a sense that in some way they are special due to the special way in which they have specialized. Each person tends to fall into the trap/prison of believing that their own form of specialization is special in the sense of being better and more worthy of respect than other forms of specialization. Communication breaks down when people come to believe that their specialized medium of communication is inherently better and more worthy of respect than is the medium of communication of other specialists; for then people with diverse means of communication cannot communicate with each other, even when they try to do so, which is only rarely. People who do not respect each other's mediums of communication are unlikely to try to communicate with each other. The human tendency to develop specialized mediums of communication can generate an endless process of forming sub-specialties; each with its own highly specialized language and types of messages, and its own specialized sense of self worth which isolates those who are worthy of respect, from those who use other mediums of communication and are not worthy of respect and attention. The process is a disintegrative process which is not worthy of respect or support. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================