Sometimes we overexamine ourselves. Today's discourse styles have framed us into a constraint of self-repetitions, in either virtual or traditional, in-person dialogues. Much of this was induced by our disolving attention span and patience, and yet there is something else that invaded into our discourse and became part of the hindrance to effective speech. This short article presents a tentative "theory" of why we are repeating and telling ourselves things with certainty, mostly in words, that we already knew implicitly and were already able to conceptualize in other forms of meaning-making. Such misplaced, pseudo-necessity can be surprisingly costly in contexts like collegiate classrooms. Beyond, the same question for individuals, what about at the group level for the general public? The author further concludes that this self-repetitive, sometimes toxic pattern is part of what he calls the "common knowledge predicament" in that all of us suffer more or less from the lack of understanding, or even misunderstood conventions, among a supposedly mutually-repsected population who are, counterintuitively, subject to the illiteracy epidemic.

Authors:
D. Tony Sun, Yeshiva University, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Mr. D. Tony Sün (Dachao Sun) is a current Adjunct Instructor and Student Assistant of Yeshiva University, United States of America. He studies as a master's student in mathematics at Yeshiva University since January 2024. Mr. Sün received his undergraduate and other master's degrees from Peiyang ('Tientsin,' 'Tianjin') University, Clemson University, Hult International Business School, and University of Pennsylvania respectively. He had previously worked on software documentation (or technical writing), software development and K-8 computer science education; I had tutored voluntarily students at different age levels (pre-K, secondary, and adults). Since recently, his leisure time is occasionally spared on some efforts in healthcare fundraising as well.

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