I remember being much more politicly active when I was younger. When I was 19 I became a precinct comity person for the republican party in Lane county Oregon. It took a lot of phone calls with local voters and in person conversations in order to get elected. I was disappointed when I went to the comity meets when all they would ever talk about was where the missing money for the local party had gone. The failures in communication I witnessed then has forever made me distrust political systems and parties. Sometimes communication is lacking is some of the most important public situations, especially political processes.

I have experienced this a lot when using English with people from different counties. I remember going to Canada and visiting an ice-cream shop, and needing to get so napkins. When I ask the girl that was working at the shop where they kept the napkins she asked me why I needed napkins since I'm a man. I didn't understand, and I had to explain what I meant being a piece of paper to clean the mess from eating. The girl then let me know that napkin actually meant tampon in the area she was from. Sometimes words can have very different meaning in different regions even if its the same language.

This seems like a strange fact to hear. I would have thought that communication would have been one of the first departments to have been developed in universities but this is not the case. Perhaps people didn't keep in perspective hoe significant the ability to communicate is. This could also be a explanation for why people in the past had so many problems because nobody knows how to properly communicate with each other. If people are adequately educated on how to communicate with each other than conflict is less likely the first response to a problem.

I think this points out the main factor that separates humans from animals. It's our ability to develop highly sophisticated communication methods that has allowed us to collaborated, learn from one another, develop advanced computations systems and so much more. Communication also is what gives humans the ability to express complex thoughts and emotions that animals do not possess the ability to fully express. Though I think its wise to consider the logical and emotional intelligence of animals even though they do not use verbal and written communication in the way humans do, they sill express valued forms of communication and can even learn forms of communication from humans. It would be interesting if somebody could build a translation device that could translate animal thoughts into words, but I don't think technology is quite there yet.