Getting what people say, for example, may be complicity, may reveal you are a member of a cult; or colluding with someone to protect yourself from unwanted experiences; or that you prefer agreement to revision or conflict. And this might mean, in this context, not always assuming that there is an it to get; living as if missing the point – having the courage of one’s naivety – could also be a point. Not assuming, as I think we do more often than we realize, that the joke – after God’s providential design, and the laws of nature – is our best model of how things work, especially between people.
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