From: dawnd	Date: March 25th, 2008 09:48 pm (UTC)		(link)

(nod) What I find particularly puzzling is when I've been attentively listening without responding, and someone asks me what I think, and I offer it, and then get this same response. I'll agree, I think it's an unhelpful feature of this culture, this tendency to cast everything in a hierarchical frame. And I agree that there are reflections of personal issues and dynamics in political conversations as well--sort of an "as above, so below" effect, from personal to political and back again.