In a world these days of Zoom and FaceTime, conversation might be more critical than ever to find connection.Here is a Brief But Spectacular take from renowned designer Fred Dust on how we can all talk better together.I'm talking to you from my kitchen.The reason why is, I think the first technology that stole conversation away from us was television. No offense, "PBS NewsHour." I love you.But the moment that we gave our, like, our dinner over to television, which we did in about the '50s, we started to lose conversation in America, in the world.My mother happened to be a really phenomenal listener. She has just kind of one of those faces.However, my mother had a stroke when I was 24 and wasn't really able to listen as well ever again.When you can lose someone, where she is gone in some capacity, you start realizing your life needs to be really full.And I realized my life had to be full by actually meeting as many people and having as many conversations as I possibly could.I was a gay kid raised in a private school by my father who was a headmaster who wanted the perfect son.So, I had to play soccer and date cheerleaders. And so I was pretty lost into a persona that wasn't me.At the same time, AIDS had hit. So we were seeing basically the genocide of gay men. And I was afraid at that point to kind of come out.
