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Brief For Regaining
A Lost Luxury
Anny Onimous
There was I time when men did not speak just to make conversation; conversation made them. In ancient Greece men conversed freely. There was a certain group I In Athens which congregated for this sole pleasure. Because Socrates was the wisest among them, he became known as master and the others as pupils. And out of the aired opinions a truth would now and then emerge. And from this group and its learning emerged also Plato, who over two thousand years later may still be studied as one of the philosophic greats.
Peeking again back into history, one is able to perceive a whole era which took its name from the wittiest conversationalist of the time: the Age of Voltaire. And what a glorious age it was!
But today. Today where are even the ochoef of the luxuries of epochs like those? There is no excuse for the degradation of conversation. Delicately carved furniture crumbles, exquisitely wrought iron rusts, masterful artworks decay, palatial castles fall into ruin, but conversation remains among the eternal luxuries in life. It may be, indeed, as eternal’ as life, pace it, and survive with it.
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