If you were really antisocial, you wouldn't care how you seem. It seems to me
this is more a tactic for executing conversations rather than a necessity.
One could merely inhibit the self in various ways topic by topic. As for
alcohol, it actually becomes easier for me to do this, as my inner nihilist
comes out who doesn't feel the need to reconcile the every single thing my
nutcase discussant has to say.
On 1/15/19, 11:39 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-boun...@redfish.com
on behalf of geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:
There's another, more subtle, reason to adopt roles. To have a fully
Socratic conversation, you have to commit to an extra extent to play along with
things your authentic, fully complex, individual self may not agree with. The
most well-known role is Devil's Advocate. But there are many others. If I
don't adopt the role, I end up just sitting there listening politely ... which
people have told me seems "aloof" or "stand-off-ish".
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