Phatic Rules
(as in Dominates)
Face Book, negotiating
relationships rather than
Taking Care of Business
Oh, there’s some TCB
going on, but mostly
what Malinowski calls
Phatic Communion:
words merely tokens
for Relationship, status
& strokes sustainability:
Sup! How you doon!
How ‘bout them heels!
Cute kids! Where you at!
Take it easy! Be well!
Peace! Shalom
Namaste! E=
Not message but massage
counts: stroking some
common sense of cool
or thatzhot: affect trumping
intellect: phatic more than
emphatic, cultivating Relationship
the guts behind any exchange:
see me hear me touch me
feed me
NO!
Man IS an
texting toward
to be born again and again. .
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