The Crowbar and the Trigger Finger
by [name redacted]
A somewhat edited version of this was published by Game Career Guide, under the title “Phantom Fingers“; here is the article in full.
We make communication so darned difficult. We create languages, manners, rules, syntax, subtext, irony… We learn to love the language and its artifice – and the more we cherish our tools, the more signal that gets lost in transmission. Soon we get so caught up in what we’re saying that we no longer have any anchor in our surroundings, the foundations give way, and all our facades collapse around us.