Anti-Mimetic Communication

The space between stimulus and response.

The medium is the mimesis.

Most of us are price-takers in the market of communication. We don’t set the tone; we adopt one. Receive a passive aggressive email, send a passive aggressive email. See a bunch of snarky tweets in your feed, you tweet snark. Get emoji-filled text, send emoji-filled text.

In some ways, the mimesis is normal and healthy. I watch…